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A Poet's Prosperity

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Parent Issue
Day
27
Month
November
Year
1874
Copyright
Public Domain
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Bryant has made more money than any poet tbat ever lived. It has, however, not been the product of his Muse, but of his newspaper. To this is to be added the tact that he is of simple habita and cannot but be moderate in general expenses. He is estiinated to be worth at from $100,000 up to $500,000, which is certainly doing very well. No other editor, except Bennett, has exceeded this sum, or even equaled it, while, as for poets, one may ask, which of this gif ted clan ever dreamed of such eaccess 't Bryant, indeed, reminds us (in this point at least) of what Jeffrey said of Byron in his critique, " He never lived in a garret like thoroughbred poets." But wealth never inflated his vanity. It came as the earnings of a great journal, and it was never used for display.-

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Subjects
Old News
Michigan Argus