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RICHARD GRANT WHITE (1822-1885)

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 601 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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RICHARD See also:GRANT See also:WHITE (1822-1885)  , See also:American Shakespearean See also:scholar, philologist and essayist, was See also:born in New See also:York See also:city, on the 23rd of May 1822 . He graduated at the university of the City of New York in 1839, studied See also:medicine and then See also:law, and was admitted to the See also:bar in 1845, but made no serious attempts to practise . He contributed (anonymously) musical criticisms to the New York See also:Courier and Enquirer, of which he was co-editor in 1851-1858, and became a member of the See also:staff of the New York See also:World, when that See also:paper was established in 1860 . In 1861-1878 he was See also:chief of the See also:United States See also:Revenue Marine See also:Bureau, for the See also:district of New York . When he was 21 years old he wrote his See also:sonnet, " See also:Washington: See also:Pater Patriae," which, published anonymously, was frequently ascribed to See also:Wordsworth, and by See also:William See also:Cullen See also:Bryant was ascribed to See also:Landor; See also:White did not admit his authorship until 1852 . In 1853 he contributed anonymously to See also:Putnam's See also:Magazine (See also:October and See also:November), an acute and destructive See also:criticism of See also:Collier's See also:folio See also:manuscript emendations of See also:Shakespeare;) and in the following See also:year this criticism was republished (with other See also:matter) in his Shakespeare's Scholar: being See also:Historical and See also:Critical Studies of his See also:Text, Characters, and Commentators; with an Examination of Mr Collier's Folio of 1623 . During the See also:Civil See also:War he contributed to the Spectator, under the See also:pseudonym, " A See also:Yankee," a See also:series of articles which greatly influenced See also:English public See also:opinion in favour of the See also:North, while his See also:clever and pungent See also:satire, The New See also:Gospel of See also:Peace; according to St See also:Benjamin, in four books (1863-1866)—also published anonymously—was an effective attack upon " See also:copper-headism " and the See also:advocates of " peace at any See also:price." He died in New York on the 8th of See also:April 1885 . In addition to those mentioned above, his Shakespearean publications include, See also:Essay on the Authorship of the Three Parts of See also:King See also:Henry VI . (1859), See also:Memoirs of the See also:Life of William Shakespeare; with an Essay towards the Expression of his See also:Genius, and an See also:account of the Rise and Progress of the English See also:Drama to the See also:Time of Shakespeare (1865) ; an annotated edition of Shakespeare's See also:works in 3 vols . (1883), and Studies in Shakespeare (1885), See also:pleading for a rational treatment of the plays without over-annotation, textual or aesthetic . On linguistic subjects he wrote Words and their Uses, Past and See also:Present (1870), and a sequel, Every See also:Day English (1880), which without linguistic thoroughness, stimulated See also:interest in the See also:general subject of See also:good use in See also:language . His other publications include See also:National See also:Hymns: How they are Written and How they are not Written (,861), containing some of the best and worst of 1200 hymns submitted to a See also:committee (of which White was a member) in a competition for a See also:prize offered for a national hymn; See also:Poetry, Lyrical, Narrative and Satirical, of the Civil War (1866) ; The Fall of See also:Man; or, The Loves of the Gorillas, By a Learned See also:Gorilla (1871); See also:Chronicles of See also:Gotham .

By U . Donough Outis (1871); The American View of the See also:

Copyright Question (1880), See also:England Without and Within (1881), and The See also:Fate of See also:Mansfield See also:Humphreys (1884), a novel . For estimates of White's critical See also:writing see the See also:review of Shakespeare's Scholar in the Eclectic Magazine, vol. xxxiv . (1855) ; and the articles in the See also:Atlantic Monthly, vol. xlix . (1882) by E . P . Whipple, and vol. lvii . (1886) . His son, See also:STANFORD WHITE (1853-1906), the famous architect, studied under Henry H . See also:Richardson, whom he assisted in the designing of Trinity See also:Church, See also:Boston, and became a member of the New York See also:firm of See also:McKim, See also:Mead & White in 1881 . He designed the See also:Madison Square See also:Garden, the See also:Century and See also:Metropolitan Clubs in New York City, the buildings of the New York University and the University of See also:Virginia, and the pedestals for several of the statues by See also:Augustus St Gaudens . He was murdered by Harry Thaw in 1906 .

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