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American

George D. Prentice

1802–1870

George D. Prentice (1802–1870) was a Connecticut-born newspaper editor and poet, long the editor of the Louisville Journal.

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.

Poems (8)

  1. The Closing Year
  2. Lines to a Lady
  3. The Dead Mariner
  4. Sabbath Evening
  5. To a Lady
  6. Written at My Mother's Grave
  7. Memories
  8. New England

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