Calvert, George Henry
Calvert, George Henry( 1803–89),descendant of the Baltimore family, was born in Maryland, educated at Harvard and Göttingen, and settled in 1840 at Newport, R.I. He was the author of closet dramas, such as Arnold and André (1864); several volumes of poetry in “a diluted Tennysonian vein”; an essay on manners, The Gentleman (1863); critical analyses of the countries through which he traveled; “biographic aesthetic” studies of English and European authors; a Fourierist Introduction to Social Science (1856); and other works. Poe's criticism in A Chapter on Autography, “Essentially a feeble and commonplace writer of poetry, although his prose compositions have a certain degree of merit,” is still considered valid.
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