Dana, Richard Henry, Sr.
Dana, Richard Henry, Sr.( 1787–1879),Massachusetts poet and journalist, was a founder of The North American Review. When his romantic criticism alienated many of this magazine's subscribers, he began his own journal in New York, The Idle Man (1821–22), modeled upon Irving's Salmagundi. Because of Dana's perpetual procrastination, he was satirized by Lowell as being “so well aware of how things should be done, that his own works displease him before they're begun.” His slight literary production was collected in the two-volume Poems and Prose Writings (1833, enlarged 1850), but his famous lectures on Shakespeare have never been printed, and he was overshadowed during his last 40 years by his son.
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