Poetry Codex

American

James Kirke Paulding

1778–1860

James Kirke Paulding (1778–1860) was a New York essayist, novelist and poet, and later Secretary of the Navy. His poem The Backwoodsman appeared in 1818.

Griswold included 5 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 (5)

  1. Ode to Jamestown
  2. Passage Down the Ohio
  3. Evening
  4. Crossing the Alleghanies
  5. The Old Man's Carousal

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