Edward Everett

Edward Everett (1794–1865) was an orator, scholar and statesman, born in Dorchester, Massachusetts: professor of Greek at Harvard, governor of Massachusetts and United States Secretary of State.

Griswold included 2 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.