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Dictionary of Literary Biography on Evert Augustus Duyckinck
Evert A. Duyckinck was the most important American literary critic in New York during the two decades before the Civil War. He was a principal figure in the Young America movement of literary nationalists in the 1840s, the chief editor for Wiley and Putnam's Library of American Books (1845-1848), the founder of the weekly Literary World (1847-1853), a major literary diarist and correspondent, the principal compiler of the landmark Cyclopædia of American Literature (1855), and the donor of a major founding collection of books to the New York Public Library. Best known for his friendship with and influence upon Herman Melville, Duyckinck was also a significant figure in the careers of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, William Gilmore Simms, and, to a lesser degree, Margaret Fuller, Henry David Thoreau, James Russell Lowell, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Washington Irving.
Although Duyckinck's periodical publications were frequently a mixture of...
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