The genealogy of the Brainerd-Brainard family in America, 1649-1908 . JDIIX (JARDINEK BKAINKKI). Fifth GeneraUon. 63 Gap in that publication was from tlie pen of Brainard,though he left it unfinished. His literary career as an editor and as a writer of poetry wasshort, extending only to six years. It was, nevertheless,important to his own fame and to his countrys intellectualwealth. He culled every variety of sweet that lay in hispath, and looked on nature and man with the eye of apoet, and to subserve a poets purposes. Three years sufficed to furnish a small volume of the poetrythus
The genealogy of the Brainerd-Brainard family in America, 1649-1908 . JDIIX (JARDINEK BKAINKKI). Fifth GeneraUon. 63 Gap in that publication was from tlie pen of Brainard,though he left it unfinished. His literary career as an editor and as a writer of poetry wasshort, extending only to six years. It was, nevertheless,important to his own fame and to his countrys intellectualwealth. He culled every variety of sweet that lay in hispath, and looked on nature and man with the eye of apoet, and to subserve a poets purposes. Three years sufficed to furnish a small volume of the poetrythus contributed to The Mirror, or that remained by himunprinted. It was published early in the year 1825. Itwas accompanied by a very brief and impretending intro-duction, and left to find its way by its own merits into thehearts and minds of his countrymen. The naivete withwhich it was committed to their attention was answeredby a generous and general approval of its contents. Other fugitive pieces followed this volume, which, togetherAvith the former, were collected
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