Wallace, William Ross
Wallace, William Ross( 1819–81),born in Kentucky, moved in 1841 to New York, where he became a lawyer and poet. His works include Alban the Pirate (1848), a long verse romance; Meditations in America, and Other Poems (1851), ardently patriotic in describing American scenery; and The Liberty Bell (1862), militant poems upholding the Union, which were set to music. Although he himself has been forgotten, his poem The Hand That Rocks the Cradle has been a popular anthology piece. He was an intimate friend of Poe, whom he is said to have resembled in both appearance and temperament, and whom he defended against the attacks of John Neal.
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