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James T. Fields

1817–1881

James T. Fields (1817–1881) was a Portsmouth, New Hampshire-born Boston publisher, a partner in Ticknor and Fields, editor of the Atlantic Monthly and a poet.

Griswold included 13 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 (18)

  1. On a Pair of Antlers, Brought from Germany
  2. Ballad of the Tempest
  3. A Valentine
  4. On a Book of Sea-Mosses, Sent to an Eminent English Poet
  5. Glory
  6. True Honour
  7. Webster
  8. The Old Year
  9. Sleighing-Song
  10. Fair Wind
  11. Dirge for a Young Girl
  12. Last Wishes of a Child
  13. The Stars and Stripes
  14. With Wordsworth at Rydal
  15. Common Sense
  16. The Owl-Critic
  17. The Turtle and Flamingo
  18. The Alarmed Skipper

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