Author:Rufus Wilmot Griswold

Rufus Wilmot Griswold
(1815–1857)

This engraving of Rufus Wilmot Griswold was published in 1855, and is based on a portrait painted by Miner Kilbourne Kellogg.

Works

Poetry collections

• The Cypress Wreath: A Book of Consolation (1844)
• Illustrated Book of Christian Ballads (1844) (transcription project)

Individual poems

• "Sights from My Window" (1840)
• "The Sunset Storm" (1842)
• "Love Supreme" (1855), from The Knickerbocker Gallery

Nonfiction

• Death of Edgar Allan Poe (1849)
• The Republican Court or, American Society in the Days of Washington (1854) (transcription project)

Collections as editor

• Biographical Annual (1841)
• The Poets and Poetry of America (1842, first of several editions)
• Gems from American Female Poets (1842)
• Readings in American Poetry for the Use of Schools (1843)
• Curiosities of American Literature (1844)
• The Poets and Poetry of England in the Nineteenth Century (1844)
• The Prose Works of John Milton (1845)
  • "Biographical introduction"
• The Poets and Poetry of England (1845)
• Poetry of the Sentiments (1846)
• Scenes in the Life of the Savior (1846)
• Prose Writers of America (1847)
• Female Poets of America (1848)
• The Sacred Poets of England and America (1848)
• Gift Leaves of American Poetry (1849)
• Poetry of the Flowers (1850)
• The Gift of Affection (1853)
• Gift of Flowers, or Love's Wreath (1853)
• Gift of Love (1853)
• Gift of Sentiment (1854)
• The Knickerbocker Gallery (1855)

Works about Griswold

• The Cambridge History of American Literature/Preface
• Mentioned in "The Angel of the Odd" (1844) by Edgar Allan Poe
• A Fable for Critics (1848) by James Russell Lowell
• Mentioned in "History of the Press in Western New York" (1847) by Frederick Follett
• "Griswold, Rufus Wilmot," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)