Born in Massachusetts in 1794, died in New York in 1878;
studied at Williams College in 1810-11; admitted to the bar
in 1815; published "Thanatopsis" in 1816; a volume of
"Poems" in 1821; joined the staff of the New York _Evening
Post_, becoming its chief editor in 1829; published another
volume of poems in 1832; opposed the extension of slavery;
published a translation of Homer in 1870-71; his "Prose
Writings" published after his death.