Bayard Taylor ( January 11 , 1825 – December 19 , 1878 ) was a U.S. poet and writer. Sourced Till the sun grows cold, And the stars are old, And the leaves of the Judgment Book unfold. Bedouin Song , reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations , 10th...
Baynard Taylor was one of the most popular travel writers of his time, producing eleven volumes of his own accounts and lecturing throughout the United States to large audiences. From the time his first travel book appeared in 1846 virtually until his...
A prolific travel writer, lecturer, novelist, playwright, and technically proficient poet, Bayard Taylor is best remembered today for his metrically faithful translation of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust (1808- 1832), which was the best English...
Bayard Taylor (11 January 1825-19 December 1878), known in his time as "the Great American Traveler" (a title he hated), and as a poet of considerable technical skill, remains alive today largely through his translation of Goethe's Faust (both parts)...
.APHILIP RANDOLPH, the great labor leader and patriarch of the civil rights movement, was the titular director of the March on Washington that took place in this city 24 years ago this week. But the planner, the detail man and the organizer was his...
Introduction Boyard Rustin was the consummate civil rights strategist and humanitarian.1 Indeed, he shaped the course of social protest for some thirty years.2 First as political adviser to Martin Luther King, Jr. and later as leader of the 1963 March on Washington, Rustin...
