Thomas Buchanan Read

Thomas Buchanan Read

Thomas Buchanan Read (March 12, 1822 – May 11, 1872), was an American poet and portrait painter born in Chester County, Pennsylvania.

Read wrote a prose romance, "The Pilgrims of the Great St. Bernard", and several books of poetry,including "The New Pastoral", "The House by the Sea", "Sylvia", and "A Summer Story". Some of the shorter pieces included in these, e.g., "Sheridan's Ride," "Drifting,""The Angler", "The Oath," and "The Closing Scene," have great merit. Read was briefly associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. His greatest artistic popularity took place in Florence. Among portraits he painted were Abraham Lincoln, Henry Longfellow, Alfred Tennyson, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning and William Henry Harrison. Read died from injuries sustained in a carriage accident, which weakened him and led him to contract pneumonia while on shipboard returning to America.

Literary works

* "Poems." 1847
* "The Female Poets of America With Portraits, Biographical Notices, and Specimens of Their Writings." 1849
* "Lays and Ballads" 1849
* "Thoraren the Skald." 1850
* "The Stolen Child." 1850
* "Edward A. Brackett's Marble Group of the Shipwrecked Mother and Child." 1852
* "The Pilgrim's of the Great St. Bernard." 1853
* "The New Pastoral." 1855
* "The House by the Sea. A Poem." 1855
* "Sylvia, or, The Last Shepherd An Eclogue, and Other Poems." 1857
* "Rural Poems." 1857
* "James L. Claghorn, Esq." 1860
* "Sheridan's Ride." 1864
* "The Descent of the Eagle." 1865
* "The Soldier's Friend." 1865
* "The Eagle and the Vulture." 1866
* "The Poetical Works of Thomas Buchanan Read: Complete in Three Volumes." 1867

References

*"Read, Thomas Buchanan." "American Authors 1600 – 1900." H. W. Wilson Company, NY 1938.
*Dickason, David Howard. "The Daring Young Men; The Story of the American Pre-Raphaelites." Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1953. (pp. 26-32) [http://books.google.com/books?id=TmdCfKu80SoC&pg=PA26&lpg=PA26&dq=thomas+buchanan+read+sitters&source=web&ots=v_SF2ff4lc&sig=R6OHeGzgZ7dutjDAhKSETmynghE&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=8&ct=result googlebooks] Retrieved September7, 2008
* [http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=thomas+buchanan+read&fq=ap%3A%22read%2C+thomas+buchanan%22+%3E+dt%3Abks&fc=yr:_25&qt=show_more_yr%3A worldcat] Accessed September 7, 2008

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