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The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Charles Godfrey Leland (1824–1903)

Leland, Charles Godfrey. An American poet and prose-writer; born in Philadelphia, Aug. 15, 1824; died on March 20, 1903. He was most widely known for his ‘Hans Breitmann’s Party, and Other Ballads’ (1868); burlesque poems in Pennsylvania Dutch, of which there have been four series. He spent much time abroad, studying gypsy life. His works include: ‘Poetry and Mystery of Dreams’; ‘English Gypsies’; ‘Minor Arts’; ‘The Gypsies.’