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Harris, Joel Chandler
(1848-1908) Writer of tales, etc., b. at Eatonton, Georgia, was successively printer, lawyer, and j...
Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin
(1754-1812)
Poet, b. at Reading, Connecticut, served for a time as an army chaplain, and thereafter betook himself to law, and finally to commerce and diplomacy, in the former of which he made a fortune. He was much less successful as a poet than as a man of affairs. His writings include Vision of Columbus (1787), afterwards expanded into the Columbiad (1807), The Conspiracy of Kings (1792), and The Hasty Pudding (1796), a mock-heroic poem, his best work. These are generally pompous and dull. In 1811 he was app. ambassador to France, and met his death in Poland while journeying to meet Napoleon.
(1848-1908) Writer of tales, etc., b. at Eatonton, Georgia, was successively printer, lawyer, and j...
Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin