Henry Beck Hirst
Henry Beck Hirst (23 August 1813 Philadelphia – 30 March 1874) was a poet residing in the United States.
Biography
He studied law, but was not admitted to the bar till 1843, his studies having been interrupted by mercantile pursuits. His first poems were published in Graham's Magazine. He afterward wrote A Poetical Dictionary, or Popular Terms illustrated in Rhyme (Lenox, Massachusetts), The Coming of the Mammoth, and other Poems (Boston, 1845), Endymion, a Tale of Greece (1848) and The Penance of Roland (1849).
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References
Wilson, James Grant; Fiske, John, eds. (1892). "Hirst, Henry Beck". Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. New York: D. Appleton.