George Hill

George Hill (1796–1871) was a poet and diplomat, a native of Guilford, Connecticut, and a Yale graduate, who served as a professor of mathematics in the United States Navy. His poem The Ruins of Athens appeared in 1839.

Griswold included 8 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.