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[Up] [Dromo's Den] George Pope Morris Biography MORRIS,
George Pope (1802-64). An American journalist and poet, born in
Philadelphia. He founded with Samuel Woodworth (q.v.) in New York the Mirror
(1823-42), a literary weekly, which became the New
Mirror, and the Evening Mirror. In
these journals appeared much early work of Bryant,
Halleck, Poe, Paulding, Willis, Hoffman, and others,
making these periodicals important elements in the literary development of the
time. Morris also founded the National Press (1845), out of which was developed the Home
Journal (1846), in which Willis, who had long been associated with Morris,
again collaborated. His Briarcliff
(1825), founded on Revolutionary incidents and events, was a popular success.
His Poems, collected for the last time
in 1860, contained the familiar ballads, "Woodman, Spare that Tree"
(founded on a real incident), "My Mother's Bible," "We Were Boys
Together," 'and "A Long Time Ago." Morris died in New York, July
6, 1864. Consult J. G. Wilson, Bryant and
his Friends (New York, 1886). The New International
Encyclopaedia, Vol. XVI
(New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1920)
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