RARE "American Poet" Park Benjamin Sr Clipped Signature Mounted For Sale
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RARE "American Poet" Park Benjamin Sr Clipped Signature Mounted:
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Up for sale a VERY RARE! "American Poet" Park Benjamin Sr Clipped Signature Mounted On An Album Page.
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Park Benjamin Sr. (August 14, 1809
– September 12, 1864) was well known in his time as an American poet,
journalist, editor and founder of several newspapers. He was born in Demerara, British Guiana, August 14, 1809, but was early sent to New England, and graduated from Trinity College, Hartford, Conn. He
practiced law in Boston, but abandoned it
for editorial work there and later in New York. On July 8, 1839, he joined
with Rufus Wilmot Griswold to
produce The Evening Tattler, a journal which promised "the
sublimest songs of the great poets–the eloquence of the most renowned
orators–the heart-entrancing legends of love and chivalry–the laughter-loving
jests of all lands". In addition to fiction and poetry, it also published
foreign news, local gossip, jokes, and New York police reports. In 1840 Benjamin helped to found The New World and
after other brief editorial ventures became a lecturer, public reader, and
periodical writer. He was sued for libel by James Fenimore Cooper, and
was on personal terms with Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allan Poe. By the time his first son, Park Benjamin Jr., was born, he had settled down to quiet
retirement in Long Island. His son went
on to become a writer as well as a patent lawyer and physician. Benjamin died,
after a brief illness, on September 12, 1864. Edgar Allan Poe had mixed feelings about
Benjamin, calling his writing "lucid, terse, and pungent" and his
character "witty, often cuttingly sarcastic, but seldom humorous". Walt Whitman, for a time one of Benjamin's employees and
protégés, hated his poetry outright.[4] In the 20th century, Park Benjamin Sr. was
virtually forgotten. He is now known only through his shorter poems, of which
"The Old
Sexton" is often anthologized.
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