Park Benjamin (poet)
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Park Benjamin (1809-64) was an American journalist and poet. He was born in British Guiana, August 14, 1809, but was early sent to New England, and graduated from Trinity College, Hartford, Conn. He practiced law in Boston, but abandoned it for editorial work there and later in New York. In 1840 he helped to found The New World and after other brief editorial ventures became a lecturer, public reader, and periodical writer. He is now known only through his shorter poems, of which "The Old Sexton" is a favorite of the anthologist.
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