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Name: Richard Henry Dana, Jr.
Birth Date: 1815
Death Date: January, 1882
Place of Death: Rome, Italy
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: lawyer, author

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Biography of Richard Henry Dana, Jr.
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Richard Henry Dana, Jr. (1 August 1815-6 January 1882), author and lawyer, was the son of Richard Henry Dana, Sr., a minor poet and founder of the North American Review. Dana received his elementary education at various schools in the Boston area,...
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Biography of Richard Henry Dana, Jr.
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American author and lawyer Richard Henry Dana, Jr. (1815-1882), wrote one of the most persistently popular nonfiction narratives in American letters, Two Years before the Mast. He was also an adviser in the formation and direction of the Free Soil...
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Biography of Richard Henry Dana, Jr.
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In 1834 a well-bred Harvard undergraduate from one of New England's most prominent literary families decided to leave that hallowed college for an extended voyage as a common sailor on a merchantman bound for Cape Horn and the nearly unknown California...
 


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Richard Henry Dana, Jr. ( 1815-08-01 - 1882-01-06 ) was an American lawyer and politician best known for his classic book Two Years Before the Mast . Contents 1 Sourced 1.1 Two Years Before the Mast (1840) 1.2 Twenty-Four Years After (1869) 2 External...


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Richard Henry Dana, Jr. Information
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Richard Henry Dana Jr. (August 1, 1815 - January 6, 1882) was an American lawyer and politician, and author of the book Two Years Before the Mast. He was born into one of the first families of Cambridge, Massachusetts, grandson of Francis Dana, and...


News and Journals
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World and I
The Accidental Masterpiece - Richard Henry Dana's voyage of discovery.
12/01/2000: 3,207 words, approx. 11 pages
J.B. Cheaney is a freelance writer living in the Ozarks of Missouri. Her first novel, The Playmaster, was recently published by Random House. When Richard Henry Dana Jr. posed for a daguerreotype in 1840, this scion of a distinguished family had just...
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The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Youmans, Henry A., Jr.
04/18/2001: 485 words, approx. 2 pages
Youmans, Henry A., Jr. Wednesday, April 18, 2001 Youmans, Henry A., Jr. Waukesha Freeman publisher and lifelong Waukesha resident Henry A. Youmans died on Monday, April 16, 2001. He was 79 years of age and was born in Waukesha on February 16,...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by R. H. Stoddard
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In the following excerpt Stoddard provides a critical overview of Dana's literary career, noting especially the influence of Coleridge's "Rime of the Ancient Mariner" on "The Buccaneer."
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Critical Essay by Doreen Hunter
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In the following excerpt, Hunter addresses Dana's early espousal of romanticism and his later conversion to evangelical Christianity.
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Critical Essay by Robert A. Ferguson
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In the following excerpt, Ferguson compares Dana's early romanticism with his later thoughts on legal theory, contrasting the gothic story "Paul Felton" (1822), with the essay "Law as Suited to Man " (1835).
 


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