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Name
  
Henry Hirst

Role
  
Poet

Died
  
March 30, 1874


Henry Beck Hirst Henry Beck Hirst 1813 1874 Find A Grave Memorial

Books
  
Endymion, The Coming Of The Mammoth, The Funeral Of Time, And Other Poems

Henry Beck Hirst (August 23, 1813 – March 30, 1874) was a poet from the United States.

Biography

Hirst was born in Philadelphia. He studied law, but was not admitted to the bar until 1843, his studies having been interrupted by mercantile pursuits. His first poems were published in Graham's Magazine. He afterward wrote A Poetical Dictionary, or Popular Terms illustrated in Rhyme (Lenox, Massachusetts), The Coming of the Mammoth, and other Poems (Boston, 1845), Endymion, a Tale of Greece (1848) and The Penance of Roland (1849).

References

Henry Beck Hirst Wikipedia


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