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John R. Thompson

1823–1873

John R. Thompson (1823–1873) was a Virginia poet and lawyer, born in Richmond, and editor of the Southern Literary Messenger.

Griswold included 2 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. Extract from "The Greek Slave"
  2. To Miss Amelie Louise Rives, on Her Departure for France
  3. The Burial of Latané
  4. Music in Camp
  5. Lee to the Rear
  6. On to Richmond
  7. Obsequies of Stuart
  8. Ashby

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