Henry Beck Hirst

Henry Beck Hirst (August 23, 1813 – March 30, 1874[1]) was an American poet.

Henry Beck Hirst (1813-1874)

Biography

Hirst was born in Philadelphia. He studied law, but was not admitted to the bar until 1843, his studies having been interrupted by business pursuits.

Hirst's first poems were published in Graham's Magazine. He afterward wrote The Coming of the Mammoth, and other Poems (Boston, 1845),[2] Endymion, a Tale of Greece (1848),[3] and The Penance of Roland (1849).[4]

Hirst also wrote a nonfiction work: The Book of Cage Birds (1843).[5]

Notes

1. Ridpath, John Clark (ed.) (1899). The Ridpath Library of Universal Literature. New York: Fifth avenue library society. pp. 326–330. Retrieved Nov 8, 2019.CS1 maint: extra text: authors list (link)
2. Hirst, Henry B (1845). The coming of the mammoth, The funeral of time and other poems. Boston: Phillips and Sampson. Retrieved Nov 8, 2019.
3. Hirst, Henry B (1848). Endymion, a Tale of Greece. Boston: William D. Ticknor and Company. Retrieved Nov 8, 2019.
4. Hirst, Henry B. (1849). The Penance of Roland: A Romance of the Peine Forte Et Dure; and Other Poems. Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields. Retrieved Nov 8, 2019.
5. Hirst, Henry B. (1843). The Book of Cage Birds. Philadelphia: Bernard Duke. Retrieved Nov 8, 2019.

References

• Wilson, J. G.; Fiske, J., eds. (1892). "Hirst, Henry Beck" . Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. New York: D. Appleton.

External links

• Henry Beck Hirst at Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore
• Henry Beck Hirst at Allpoetry.com