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Author Description <b>Bayard Taylor</b> was a poet, literary critic, translator, fiction and travel author.<br /><br />His interest in poetry was coached by the influential critic and editor Rufus Wilmot Griswold, who encouraged him to write a volume of poetry. Published at Philadelphia in 1844, <i>Ximena, or the Battle of the Sierra Morena, and other Poems</i> was dedicated to Griswold. It made little income, but indirectly was a means of his introduction to <i>The New York Tribune.</i><br /><br />With the money from his poetry and an advance for some journalistic work to be done in Europe, Taylor set sail for Europe. The young poet spent a happy time in roaming on foot through certain districts of England, France, Germany and Italy; this tour of almost two years cost him only £100. The accounts which he sent from Europe to <i>The New York Tribune, The Saturday Evening Post,</i> and <i>The United States Gazette</i> were so highly appreciated that on Taylor's return to America, he was advised to compile his articles into book form.<br /><br />In 1846, he published <i>Views Afoot, or Europe seen with Knapsack and Staff</i> (2 vols, New York). This book's success brought Taylor recognition as an author. He was asked to serve as an editorial assistant for <i>Graham's Magazine</i> for a few months in 1848. That same year, Horace Greeley, then editor of the Tribune, placed Taylor on his staff, thus securing Taylor a certain if moderate income.<br /><br />His poem "Greetings to America" was set to music by Julius Benedict and performed by the singer at numerous concerts on her tour of the United States.

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