. 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 .... BENJAMIN, Park, an American poet andjournalist, was born in Demarara, British Guiana,August 14, 1809; died in New York, September12, 1864. He studied at Harvard, and afterwardat Trinity College, Hartford, Conn., from whichhe graduated in 1829. He studied law, and wasadmitted to the bar in Boston in 1832. But liter-ature was more congenial to his tastes than thelaw, and he abandoned the latter, a
. 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 .... BENJAMIN, Park, an American poet andjournalist, was born in Demarara, British Guiana,August 14, 1809; died in New York, September12, 1864. He studied at Harvard, and afterwardat Trinity College, Hartford, Conn., from whichhe graduated in 1829. He studied law, and wasadmitted to the bar in Boston in 1832. But liter-ature was more congenial to his tastes than thelaw, and he abandoned the latter, and became oneof the editors of The Nezv England Magazine, thenjust established. In 1837 he removed to New Yorkand became associated with Charles Fenno Hoff-man in editing TJie American Monthly Magazine,and was later associated with Horace Greeley aseditor of The New Yorker. In 1840 he foundedThe New World, cind in connection with Epes Sar-gent and Rufus W. Griswold conducted it for anumber of years. He was afterward for a brieftime connected with several other periodicals, butwithdrew from all publications a number of yearsbefore his death. No collected edition of hisworks has ever been publish
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