Bayard Taylor

Gebundenes Buch

Home Ballads (LARGE PRINT EDITION)

Beschreibung

(LARGE PRINT EDITION) 1875. With illustrations. A collection of verse by the poet and travel writer, Bayard Taylor, who produced popular chronicles of his journeys at home and abroad, as well as novels and collections of poetry. His poetry is striking for qualities that appeal to the ear and eye, finished, sonorous in diction and rhythm, at times too rhetorical, but rich in sound, color, and metrical effects. Contents: The Quaker Widow; The Holly-Tree; John Reed; Jane Reed; and The Old Pennsylvania Farmer. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.

Autor

Bayard Taylor was an American poet, literary critic, translator, travel author, and diplomat. As a poet, he was extremely popular, with an audience of almost 4,000 attending a poetry reading once, setting a record that remained for 85 years. His travelogues were well-received in both the United States and Britain. He held diplomatic appointments in both Russia and Prussia. Taylor was born January 11, 1825, in Kennett Square, Chester County, Pennsylvania. He was the fourth son of Quaker couple Joseph and Rebecca Taylor, and the first to reach maturity. His mother was of half Swiss descent. His father was an affluent farmer. Charles Frederick Taylor, Bayard's younger brother, was a Union Army colonel killed in action during the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863. Bayard obtained his early education at an academy in West Chester, Pennsylvania, and later in nearby Unionville. At seventeen, he was apprenticed to a printer in West Chester. Rufus Wilmot Griswold, a renowned critic and editor, pushed him to produce poems. The resulting anthology, Ximena, or the Battle of the Sierra Morena and Other Poems, was published in 1844 and dedicated to Griswold.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
• Seitenzahl: 64
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 286mm x 221mm x 8mm
• Gewicht: 447g
• ISBN-13: 9781169854611
• ISBN-10: 1169854613
• Artikelnr.: 37455740