. The Ridpath library of universal literature : a biographical and bibliographical summary of the world's most eminent authors, including the choicest extracts and masterpieces from their writings .... GEORGE H. BOKKR. BOKER, George Henry, an American poet,dramatist, and diplomatist, born at Philadelphia,Pa., October 6, 1823 ; died there, January 2, graduated at Princeton, and studied law,though he never practised. In 1871 was appointedUnited States Minister to Constantinople, and in1875 to St. Petersburg. In 1862 he was electedPresident of the Union League of Philadelphia. Boker may j
. The Ridpath library of universal literature : a biographical and bibliographical summary of the world's most eminent authors, including the choicest extracts and masterpieces from their writings .... GEORGE H. BOKKR. BOKER, George Henry, an American poet,dramatist, and diplomatist, born at Philadelphia,Pa., October 6, 1823 ; died there, January 2, graduated at Princeton, and studied law,though he never practised. In 1871 was appointedUnited States Minister to Constantinople, and in1875 to St. Petersburg. In 1862 he was electedPresident of the Union League of Philadelphia. Boker may justly be considered one of the fewsuccesses in American dramatic literature. Thedramatic influence of Shakespeare and his con-temporaries, and the high poetic feeling of Long-fellow, combined to make Bokers Francesca daRimini a standard American play, which affordedto Lawrence Barrett a vehicle to popular favor asone of the foremost tragedians of the latter partof the nineteenth century. Says Richardson, in speaking of the tendenciesof American verse: In the desert of Americandrama the work of Boker is doubly welcome. Itis not indigenous or new or indispensable; itmerely offers somewhat of the
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