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W. H. C. Hosmer

1814–1877


William H. C. Hosmer (1814–1877) was a lawyer and poet of Avon, New York, who wrote chiefly on Native American themes.

Griswold included 6 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.

  1. The Immortality of Genius
  2. The Soldier of the Closet
  3. Battle-Ground of Denonville
  4. Menominee Dirge
  5. The Swallow
  6. A Floridian Scene
  7. Song of Texas

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