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Alfred Billings Street

 
Works: Works by Alfred Billings Street
(1811-1881)

1842The Burning of Schenectady, and Other Poems. A collection of descriptive verses that is one of the New York lawyer and librarian's two famous books (the other is Fronteac, 1849). The title piece is a narrative poem on an infamous event in New York history, and the poet's descriptions of nature are widely admired.
1849Frontenac; or, The Atotarho of the Iroquois. One of the author's most famous works is a spirited historical verse of seven thousand lines. In its critique, the North American Review hails Street's poems, saying they "abound in native beauties, both of thought and expression."

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Works. The Chronology of American Literature, edited by Daniel S. Burt. Copyright © 2004 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.  Read more