James Gates Percival
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James Gates Percival (1795 - 1854) was an American poet, born at Berlin, Connecticut.
He was a precocious child, and a morbid and impractical, though versatile man, with a facility in writing verse on all manner of subjects and in nearly every known metre. His sentimentalism appealed to a wide circle, but his was one of the tapers which were extinguished by James Lowell. He had also a reputation as a geologist. His poetic works include Prometheus and The Dream of a Day (1843).
This article incorporates text from: Cousin, John William (1910). A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature. London, J.M. Dent & sons; New York, E.P. Dutton.
Categories: A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature | U.S. poets | 1795 births | 1854 deaths | Wisconsin writers
