Thomas Dunn English
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Thomas Dunn English was an American Democratic Party politician from New Jersey who represented the state's 6th congressional district in the House of Representatives from 1891 to 1895. He was also a
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The Aristidean, September, 1845, Edgar Allan Poe's personal copy believed to contain his anonymous reviews
Grave of Thomas Dunn English
Ben Bolt
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"Ben Bolt" is a sentimental ballad with lyrics derived from a poem by Thomas Dunn English. It enjoyed widespread popularity throughout the English-speaking world during the nineteenth century.
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…already well underway. English wrote scores of poems and plays as well as stories and novels, but his reputation as a writer was built on the ballad "Ben Bolt" (1843). Written for Nathaniel Parker Willis's New-York Mirror, it was turned into a song and became very popular, with a ship, steamboat and racehorse…
As sung by Miss Phyllis Neilson-Terry in the play of Trilby
Sweet Alice (Ben Bolt), photograph by Frank Eugene, circa 1900.