Samuel Kettell

Samuel Kettell (* 1800 ; † 1855 ) was an American author and publicist whose editorships, especially on American literature of the independence and early republic, continued into the 20th century.

His best-known editorships and independent works include:

• Yankee notions A medley (1838),
• Personal narrative of the first voyage of Columbus to America (1827),
• Specimens of American poetry with critical and biographical notices in three volumes (1829), "an ardently patriotic collection of 189 writers, from Cotton Mather to Whittier"
• Daw's doings, or, The history of the late war in the plantations (1842),
• Boston Courier ,
• Quozziana, or, Letters from Great Goslington, Mass. giving an account of the Quoz Dinner , and other matters (1842) and
• The two moschetoes, a dramatic sketch (1838).

Web links

• Literature by and about Samuel Kettell in the WorldCat bibliographic database

Individual evidence

1. ^ Entry in The Oxford Companion to American Literature .