Griswold, Rufus

WILMOT, critic and author, born in Rutland co., Vermont, Feb. 15, 1815, became the editor of, among other publications, The International Magazine. His more notable works embrace: Poets and Poetry of America, and The Prose Writers of America. He was one of Poe's executors, and furnished to the 1850 editions of his works a biographical sketch which provoked much hostile criticism. Died in New York, August 27, 1857. silk stuff.