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Evert Augustus Duyckinck
American literary critic
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- Born:
- Nov. 23, 1816, New York, N.Y., U.S.
- Died:
- Aug. 13, 1878, New York City (aged 61)
Evert Augustus Duyckinck (born Nov. 23, 1816, New York, N.Y., U.S.—died Aug. 13, 1878, New York City) was an American biographer, editor, and critic who with such works as the two-volume Cyclopaedia of American Literature (1855, supplement 1866), written with his younger brother George Long Duyckinck (1823–63), focused scholarly attention on American writing and contributed to the advance of American literature in the mid-19th century. Duyckinck was the son of a publisher. He graduated from Columbia College in 1835 and, like his brother, studied law for two years and was admitted to the bar but never practiced. He spent 1838–39 ...(100 of 252 words)