A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Pinkney, Edward Coate

by John William Cousin

PINKNEY, Edward Coate (1802-1828).—B. in London, where his f. was U.S. ambassador. He wrote a number of light graceful short poems, but fell a victim to ill-health and a morbid melancholy at 25. His longest poem is Rudolph (1825).