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C.D. Warner, et al., comp.
The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Rufus Wilmot Griswold (1815–1857)

Griswold, Rufus Wilmot. An American journalist and prose-writer; born in Benson, VT, Feb. 15, 1815; died in New York, Aug. 27, 1857. He left the pulpit to enter journalism, and edited Graham’s Magazine. In 1852 he conducted the International Magazine. His works include: ‘Poets and Poetry of America,’ which reached twenty editions; ‘Poets and Poetry of England in the Nineteenth Century’; ‘Prose Writers of America’; ‘Female Poets of America’; etc.