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No nation is more abundant than Scotland in local bards that sing of streams & valleys & heathery hills

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Poetry, the noble brotherhood who speak in tones of harmony, grandeur & pathos.

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Born: April 28, 1832
Died: February 1, 1914 (aged 81)
Bio: James Grant Wilson was an American editor, author, bookseller and publisher, who founded the Chicago Record in 1857, the first literary paper in that region.
Known for:
  1. Bryant And His Friends (1886)
  2. The Life And Letters Of Fitz Greene Halleck (1869)
  3. Thackeray in the United States (1901)
  4. Presidents of the United States 1789-1914 (1894)

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