American

Francis Saltus Saltus

1849–1889


Francis Saltus Saltus (1849–1889) was an American poet of New York, a younger brother of the novelist Edgar Saltus, whose verse draws on French and Oriental models.

The poems printed here are those given in Stedman's An American Anthology, 1787–1900 (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1900); the text is taken from that anthology.

  1. The Andalusian Sereno
  2. The Sphinx Speaks
  3. The Bayadere
  4. Pastel
  5. The Ideal

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