He edited the International Monthly Magazine (1850–52) and P. He published a flawed edition of Poe's works (1850–56) and included a rather scandalous memoir. He wrote a rather harsh obituary of Poe (1849), even though Poe had named him as his literary executor. Looking for books by Rufus Wilmot Griswold See all books authored by Rufus Wilmot Griswold, including The Poets and Poetry of America, and Scenes in the. He worked as a journalist, editor, and critic in. He succeeded Edgar Allan Poe as editor of Graham's Magazine (1842–43) and edited additional literary collections, including The Prose Works of John Milton (1845, 1847), The Prose Writers of America (1847), and The Female Poets of America (1848). Rufus Wilmot Griswold was an American anthologist, compiler, poet. He was a strong opponent of Americanism in literature and published an anthology of The Poets and Poetry of America (1842). With William Leggett and others he established a library in the New York City Prison. He claimed to have read every American poem published before 1850an estimated 500 volumes.
He was also a proponent of American poetry. He edited various periodicals and campaigned against capital punishment and imprisonment for debt. Rufus Griswold had begun work as a critic working for the New York Tribune and Philadelphia's Daily Standard and earned his reputation as a vindictive and savage literary critic.
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After an obscure period of journalism and editorial work beginning in 1830, he obtained a license as a Baptist minister, though he seems never to have taken a regular pulpit. Griswold, Rufus Wilmot(1815–57) anthologist, editor, literary critic born in Benson, Vt. The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia™ Copyright © 2022, Columbia University Press.
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