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Isaac McLellan, Jr.

1806–1899


Isaac McLellan Jr. (1806–1899) was a poet of the sea and field sports, a native of Portland, Maine, and a graduate of Bowdoin College (1826).

Griswold included 4 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. New England's Dead
  2. The Death of Napoleon
  3. The Notes of the Birds
  4. Lines, Suggested by a Picture by Washington Allston

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