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Thomas Dunn English

1819–1902

Thomas Dunn English (1819–1902) was a Philadelphia-born physician, lawyer, politician and writer, the author of the song Ben Bolt.

Griswold included 1 of his poems in The Poets and Poetry of America (16th edition, Philadelphia: Parry & McMillan, 1855), the anthology from which the poems here are taken.

Poems (13)

  1. Ben Bolt
  2. The Charge by the Ford
  3. The Fall of Maubila
  4. The Burning of Jamestown
  5. The Sack of Deerfield
  6. Assunpink and Princeton
  7. Arnold at Stillwater
  8. The Battle of Monmouth
  9. Betty Zane
  10. The Battle of the Cowpens
  11. The Battle of New Orleans
  12. Battle of the King's Mill
  13. The Old Mill

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