Calvert

Calvert, GEORGE HENRY, a many-sided American author, great-grandson of Lord Baltimore (q. v.), was born in Maryland in 1803, and studied at Harvard and Göttingen. His works, which exhibit considerable purity of style and originality of thought, embrace poems, tragedies, comedies, essays, translations from the German, and studies of Goethe (1872), Wordsworth (1878), Shakespeare (1879), and Coleridge, Shelley, and Goethe (1880). From 1843 till his death (1889) he lived at Newport, Rhode Island.