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Park Benjamin (1809–1864)
Benjamin, Park. An American journalist, poet, and lecturer; born at Demerara, British Guiana, Aug. 14, 1809; died in New York, Sept. 12, 1864. He studied law originally. His poems, of a high order of merit, have never been collected. ‘The Contemplation of Nature,’ read on taking his degree at Washington College, Hartford, 1829; the satires ‘Poetry’ (1843); ‘Infatuation’ (1845); ‘The Nautilus’; ‘To One Beloved’; and ‘The Old Sexton,’ are among his works. He was associated editorially with Epes Sargent and Rufus W. Griswold.