| Works: Works by Thomas Dunn English |
| 1843 | "Ben Bolt." A popular ballad written for Nathaniel Parker Willis and George Pope Morris, who had revived the New York Mirror and asked English for a sea chantey. The sentimental verse, fondly recalling childhood and the past, becomes English's most popular work, is set to music numerous times, and is included in George Washington Cable's Dr. Sevier (1885) and in George du Maurier's Trilby (1894). |
| Quotes By: Thomas Dunn English |
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