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Henry Theodore Tuckerman

1813–1871

Henry Theodore Tuckerman (1813–1871) was a Boston-born essayist, critic and poet, author of The Spirit of Poetry (1845).

Griswold included 14 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 (15)

  1. Giovanni
  2. The Holy Land
  3. To an Elm
  4. Mary
  5. You Call Us Inconstant
  6. Greenough's Washington
  7. Alone Once More
  8. Sonnets
  9. Luna: An Ode
  10. Tasso to Leonora
  11. The Law of Beauty
  12. Columbus
  13. Florence
  14. Poetry Immortal
  15. Newport Beach

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