Sumner Lincoln Fairfield

Sumner Lincoln Fairfield (1803–1844) was a poet and editor, born in Warwick, Massachusetts, a Harvard student and the author of The Last Night of Pompeii (1832).

Griswold included 3 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.