The world: historical and actual . language. Before theirday were composed a few stray bits of poetry whichare justly treasured and widely read. These are The Star Spangled Banner, by Francis S. Key ; The Old Oaken Bucket, by Samuel Woodworth;and The Culprit Fay, by Joseph Rodman Thanatopsis of Bryant belonged to that peri-od, but the subsequent poetry of the same writer giveshim rank with the later poets. During this periodof comparative sterility, one branch of knowledgereceived exception-al attention, ornithology. AlexanderWilson, a native ofScotland, and JohnJames Audubon, aLouis
The world: historical and actual . language. Before theirday were composed a few stray bits of poetry whichare justly treasured and widely read. These are The Star Spangled Banner, by Francis S. Key ; The Old Oaken Bucket, by Samuel Woodworth;and The Culprit Fay, by Joseph Rodman Thanatopsis of Bryant belonged to that peri-od, but the subsequent poetry of the same writer giveshim rank with the later poets. During this periodof comparative sterility, one branch of knowledgereceived exception-al attention, ornithology. AlexanderWilson, a native ofScotland, and JohnJames Audubon, aLouisianian (1780-1851) made a thor-ough study of A-merican birds, andduly recorded theirobservations. Poewas born in 1811and died in was an unhap-py lot, a life-strug-gle against poverty and all the ills attendant upon in-temperance. The less said of his private life thebetter for him. His Bells, Raven, and otherpoems are familiar. He is one of the householdpoets, open to criticism, but attractive to the greatbody of EDOAR A. POE. -4- ^^r AMERICAN LITERATURE. 64I Contemporaneous with Poe may be classed FitzGreene Halleck, who was born in Guilford, Connect-icut in 1795, and died there in 1867. His life wasa pleasant episode. He was admired and courted for his person-al charmsno less thanfur his ex-quisite ge-nius. Hewas not avoluminouswriter. An-other con-temporarywas R. , theelder, bornin 1787 andliving until1879. be-longed to the aristocracy of Boston, and wrote with el-egance not only poetry but short stories and , even more than Poe, might be called tha shadow
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