James Gates Percival

James Gates Percival (born 15 or September 17, 1795 in Kensington, Connecticut; † May 2, 1856 in Hazel Green, Wisconsin ) was an American geologist and poet, who was best known for his books of poetry Clio and Poems.

Life

Percival studied post-school, first at Yale University and after the end of 1815 Medicine at the University's School of Medicine. Later, he accepted a professorship of chemistry at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and worked there with geology.

In addition to teaching, he worked as a writer of poems and published in 1821 his first volume of poetry, Poems, the beginning of the 1820s with Clio (1822 ), Prometheus, Part II: With Other Poems (1822 ) and Poems (1823 ) in rapid succession three more volumes followed. He became one of the most successful of the American Romantic poet William Cullen Bryant in front through his poems.

After about twenty year break was published in 1843 The Dream of a Day, and Other Poems (1843 ), while The Poetical Works of James Gates Percival (1863 ) was published posthumously.

Background literature

  • Julius H. Ward: The Life and Letters of James Gates Percival. Boston: Ticknor and Fields (1866 )
  • Henry E. Legler: James Gates Percival: An Anecdotal Sketch and a Bibliography. Mequon Club (1901 )
  • F. Cogswell: James Gates Percival and his Friends, 1902

External links and sources

  • Works by or about James Gates Percival in the catalog that German national library
  • James Gates Percival in the Notable Names Database (English)
  • Meyers Lexicon Great people, Mannheim 1968, p 1014
  • Chambers Biographical Dictionary, Edinburgh, 2002, ISBN 0-550-10051-2, p 1185
  • Author
  • Poetry
  • University teachers (New York)
  • Literature (19th century)
  • Literature ( English )
  • Literature (United States)
  • Geologist ( 19th century)
  • Americans
  • Born in 1795
  • Died in 1856
  • Man
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