Griswold

Griswold, RUFUS WILMOT, American editor, was born in Vermont, 15th February 1815. After extensive travels at home and in Europe, he learned printing and newspaper work, next became Baptist preacher, then journalist and compiler of books in turn at Philadelphia, Boston, and New York. The most important paper which he edited during his career, the International Magazine, was afterwards amalgamated with Harper's Magazine. Griswold died in New York, 27th August 1857. His books are numerous; but, despite his industry, he was but a poor literary critic. Here the following only can be named: Poets and Poetry of America (1842); Poets and Poetry of England in the 19th Century (1845); Prose Writers of America (1846); Female Poets of America (1848); and The Republican Court, or American Society in the Days of Washington (1854). He was one of Poe's executors, and the Life which he furnished to the edition of his works (3 vols. 1850) has occasioned much hostile criticism.