Poet Rufus Wilmot Griswold

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Rufus Wilmot Griswold

Living place: Vermont

Birthday: 13-2-1815

Global rank: #76400

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Who is Poet Rufus Wilmot Griswold?
A pseudo-American, poet, and critic, he is best known for his 1842 anthology, The Poets and Poets of America. His other anthologies include Curiosities of American Literature and Female Poets of America.
His anonymous review Leaves of Grass Walt Whitman harshly criticized the masterpiece.
 
 

Young / Before famous

One of fourteen children born to a Vermont farmer, he left home at the age of fifteen. He published his first anthology, an annual biography, in 1841.

Family life info

He was married three times-- Caroline Searles, Charlotte Myers, and Harriet McCrillis-- and may also have had a gay relationship with journalist and musician George C. Foster.

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Who is Boy (girl) friend/ wife (husband)/ darling Poet Rufus Wilmot Griswold?
He had a working relationship and rivalry with Edgar Allan Poe. Second, at one point, entered a jealousy contest for the affections of poet Frances Sargent Osgood.

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When was Poet Rufus Wilmot Griswold born?
Rufus Wilmot Griswold was born in 13-2-1815, death year is , at the age of 209.
Where is Poet Rufus Wilmot Griswold's birth place, what is Zodiac/Chinese Zodiac?
Rufus Wilmot Griswold was born in Vermont, . is a Poet, whose Zodiac is Aquarius, and who Chinese Zodiac is The Pig. Rufus Wilmot Griswold's global rank is 76400 and whose rank is 679 in list of famous Poet.
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Events in 1815 and 13-2

Birthday Rufus Wilmot Griswold (13-2) in history

  • Day 13-2 year 1866: The gang that included Jesse James and Cole Younger committed their first bank robbery in Liberty, Mo.
  • Day 13-2 year 1867: Johann Strauss's Blue Danube waltz premiered in Vienna.
  • Day 13-2 year 1935: Bruno Hauptmann was found guilty of murder in the Lindbergh kidnapping case.
  • Day 13-2 year 1960: France exploded its first atomic bomb.
  • Day 13-2 year 1974: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, who won the 1970 Nobel Prize for literature, was deported from the Soviet Union.
  • Day 13-2 year 2002: The French judge was accused of throwing the pairs skating decision to the Russians at the Olympics.
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