Alfred Billings Street
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Works by Alfred Billings Street
(1811-1881)
| 1842 | The 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. |
| 1849 | Frontenac; 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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