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James Gates Percival

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American geologist, poet, and surgeon

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According to Wikipedia, James Gates Percival was an American poet, surgeon, and geologist, born in Berlin, Connecticut, and died in Hazel Green, Wisconsin. Biography James Gates Percival was a precocious child and a versatile, yet morbid and impractical man. He had a remarkable ability to write verse on various subjects and in almost every known meter. His sentimentalism and dazzling diction appealed to a wide audience, earning him a reputation as the foremost poet in the United States during the 1820s. Some of his most famous poems include "Prometheus," "The Coral Grove," and "The Graves of the Patriots." He was also a renowned geologist.

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  • First annual report on the geological survey of the state of Wisconsin (4)
  • Oration Delivered Before the Th.B.K. Society, September 10th, 1822 on Some of the Moral and Political Truths Derivable From the Study of History (0)

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