(New to) Great Regulars: The poet, who died in 1894,

was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1809, thus sharing a birth-year with Alfred Tennyson and Edgar Allen Poe. He was a descendant of Anne Bradstreet, the first published American woman poet, and Dorothy Q. was his great grandmother, Dorothy Quincy. He was one of the so-called "Fireside Poets", a group that included Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, John Greenleaf Whittier and James Russell Lowell (do those tripartite names indicate a shared tendency to serious ancestry?)

from Carol Rumens: The Guardian: theblogbooks: Poem of the week

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