See also:

• RUFUS, GAIUS VALGIUS
• RUFUS, LUCIUS VARIUS (c 74—14 B.c.)

RUFUS See also:

• WILMOT
• WILMOT, DAVID (1814-1868)

WILMOT See also:

• RUFUS WILMOT GRISWOLD (1815–1857)

GRISWOLD (1815–1857)  , See also:

• AMERICAN

American editor and compiler, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born in See also:

• BENSON, EDWARD WHITE (182g—1896)
• BENSON, FRANCIS ROBERT (1858— )
• BENSON, FRANK WESTON (1862— )
• BENSON, GEORGE (1699–1762)

Benson, See also:

• VERMONT

Vermont, on the 15th of See also:

• FEBRUARY

February 1815 . He travelled extensively, worked in newspaper offices, was a Baptist clergyman for a See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time, and finally became a journalist in New See also:

• YORK
• YORK (HOUSE OF)
• YORK, EDMUND OF LANGLEY, DUKE OF (1341-1402)
• YORK, EDWARD
• YORK, FREDERICK AUGUSTUS, DUKE OF (1763-1827)
• YORK, RICHARD, DUKE

York See also:

• CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

City, where he was successively a member of the staffs of The See also:

• BROTHER

Brother See also:

• JONATHAN
• JONATHAN (Heb. " Yah [weh] gives ")

Jonathan, The New See also:

• WORLD

World (1839–1840) and The New Yorker (1840) . From 1841 to 1843 he edited See also:

• GRAHAM, SIR GERALD (1831–1899)
• GRAHAM, SIR JAMES ROBERT GEORGE
• GRAHAM, SYLVESTER (1794-1851)
• GRAHAM, THOMAS (1805-1869)

Graham's See also:

• MAGAZINE

Magazine (See also:

• PHILADELPHIA

Philadelphia), and added to its See also:

• LIST (O.E. lisle, a Teutonic word, cf. Dut. lust, Ger. Leiste, adapted in Ital. lista and Fr. lisle)
• LIST, FRIEDRICH (1789-1846)

list of contributors many leading American writers . From 185o to 1852 he edited the See also:

• INTERNATIONAL, THE

International Magazine (New York), which in 1852 was merged into Harper's Magazine . He died in New York City on the 27th of See also:

• AUGUST (originally Sextilis)

August 1857 . He is best known as the compiler and editor of various anthologies (with brief See also:

• BIOGRAPHIES

biographies and critiques), such as Poets and See also:

• POETRY

Poetry of See also:

• AMERICA

America (1842), his most popular and valuable See also:

• BOOK

book; See also:

• PROSE

Prose Writers of America (1846); See also:

• FEMALE

Female Poets of America (1848); and Sacred Poets of See also:

• ENGLAND
• ENGLAND, THE CHURCH OF

England and America (1849) . Of his own writings his Republican See also:

• COURT
• COURT (from the O. Fr. court, Late Lat. cortis, curtis, a popular form of class. Lat. cohors, gen. cohortis; the mod. Fr. form tour is due to the influence of the Lat. curia, the word used in medieval documents to translate " court " in the feudal sense)
• COURT, ANTOINE (1696-176o)

Court: or American Society in the Days of See also:

• WASHINGTON
• WASHINGTON (or WASHINGTON COURT HOUSE)
• WASHINGTON, BOOKER TALIAFERRO (c. 1859– )
• WASHINGTON, BUSHROD (1762-1829)
• WASHINGTON, GEORGE (1732-1799)

Washington (18J4) is the only one of permanent value . He edited the first American edition of See also:

• MILTON
• MILTON, JOHN (1608–1674)

Milton's prose See also:

• WORKS

works (1845), and, as See also:

• LITERARY

literary executor, edited, with See also:

• JAMES
• JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
• JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
• JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
• JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
• JAMES, EPISTLE OF
• JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
• JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
• JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
• JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
• JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
• JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)

James R . See also:

• LOWELL
• LOWELL, ABBOTT LAWRENCE (1856— )
• LOWELL, CHARLES RUSSELL (1835-1864)
• LOWELL, JAMES RUSSELL (1819-1891)
• LOWELL, JOHN (1743-1802)

Lowell and N . P . See also:

• WILLIS, NATHANIEL PARKER (1806-1867)
• WILLIS, THOMAS (1621-1675)

Willis, the works (1850) of See also:

• EDGAR (EADGAR)
• EDGAR, or EADGAR (c. 1050-c. 1130)

Edgar See also:

• ALLAN, DAVID (1744–1796)
• ALLAN, SIR HUGH (1810–1882)
• ALLAN, SIR WILLIAM (1782–1850)

Allan See also:

• POE, EDGAR ALLAN (18og-1849)

Poe . See also:

• GRISWOLD, RUFUS WILMOT (1815–1857)

Griswold's See also:

• GREAT

great contemporary reputation as a critic has not stood the test of time; but he rendered a valuable service in making Americans better acquainted with the poetry and prose of their own countrymen .

See Passages from the See also:

• CORRESPONDENCE
• CORRESPONDENCE (from med. scholastic Lat. correspondentia, corrcspondere, compounded of Lat. cum, with, and respond ere, to answer; cf. Fr. correspondance)

Correspondence and Other Papers of See also:

• RUFUS, GAIUS VALGIUS
• RUFUS, LUCIUS VARIUS (c 74—14 B.c.)

Rufus W . Griswold (See also:

• CAMBRIDGE
• CAMBRIDGE, EARLS AND DUKES OF
• CAMBRIDGE, RICHARD OWEN (1717-1802)

Cambridge, See also:

• MASS (O.E. maesse; Fr. messe; Ger. Messe; Ital. messa; from eccl. Lat. missa)
• MASS, IN

Mass., *898), edited by his son See also:

• WILLIAM
• WILLIAM (1143-1214)
• WILLIAM (1227-1256)
• WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
• WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
• WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
• WILLIAM, 13TH

William McCrillis Griswold (1853–1899) .