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Thomas Buchanan Read, poet and painter, was born in Chester County, Pennsylvania. He spent his later years in Rome and Florence, and painted Thackeray and Browning. Read became a writer at Longfellow's urging. His works include Poems; Lays and Ballads; and the poems "Sheridan's Ride" ; "Drifting" ; and "The Closing Scene".

Works in the EAF Collection

Paul Redding: A Tale of the Brandywine (1845) (Restricted)

Contemporary Biographies

From Oscar Fay Adams, A Dictionary of American Authors (1901)

From Samuel Austin Allibone, A Critical Dictionary of English Literature (1900)

From Evert A. Duyckinck, Cyclopaedia of American Literature (1856)