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Rufus Wilmot Griswold

Rufus Wilmot Griswold (1815-1857) was a Northern literary critic and has been called Edgar Allen Poe's "character assassin." Regardless of this transgression, he allowed William Gilmore Simms to contribute to his study of American Revolutionary War generals and wrote this laudatory biography of George Washington.

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From Washington and the Generals of the American Revolution by Rufus Wilmot Griswold and William Gilmore Simms, 1847. (Editor's Note: Thank you to Simms scholar Jeff Rogers for correcting the auhtorship of this article.  Griswold, not Simms, wrote this chapter on Washington.  Simms wrote several chapters in this two volume work, notably on Southerners Pinckney, Sumner, and Moultrie). An attentive…
Rufus Wilmot Griswold
February 22, 2016