JAMES GATES PERCIVAL BIOGRAPHY
JAMES GATES PERCIVAL BIOGRAPHY from the Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John Cousin.
PERCIVAL, JAMES GATES (1795-1854). —Poet, born at Berlin, Conn., was a precocious child, and a morbid and impractical, though versatile man, with a fatal facility in writing verse on all manner of subjects and in nearly every known metre. His sentimentalism appealed to a wide circle, but his was one of the tapers which were extinguished by Lowell. He had also a reputation as a geologist. His poetic works include Prometheus and The Dream of a Day (1843).