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Nathaniel Parker Willis (1806–1867)
Willis, Nathaniel Parker. An American poet and journalist; born at Portland, ME, Jan. 20, 1806; died at Idlewild on the Hudson, NY, Jan. 20, 1867. His chief journalistic work was with the New York Mirror (1823–42). Among his numerous writings are: ‘Inklings of Adventure’ (3 vols., 1836); ‘Loiterings of Travel’ (3 vols., 1840); ‘Letters from Under a Bridge’ (1840); ‘Poems’ (1846); ‘People I Have Met’ (1850); ‘Hurrygraphs’ (1851); ‘A Health Trip to the Tropics’ (1854); ‘Famous Persons and Places’ (1854); and ‘The Convalescent, his Rambles and Adventures’ (1859). (See Critical and Biographical Introduction).