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Henry Beck Hirst (August 23, 1813 – March 30, 1874) was an American poet.
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), Endymion, a Tale of Greece (1848), and The Penance of Roland (1849).
Hirst also wrote a nonfiction work: The Book of Cage Birds (1843).
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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
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