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Francis Glass


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Sections:  Biography    Criticism    Bibliography


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(Born: April 3, 1790 - Died: August 24, 1825)

Classical scholar and educator. He was born in Londonderry, Ireland, and emigrated to the United States with his parents when he was 8 years old.. He attended the University of Pennsylvania, where he graduted in 1809. He moved to Ohio in 1817, by which time he was already married. He died in Dayton, OH. He was buried in an old graveyard that fell into disuse and was later reclaimed for development. His remains were exhumed and moved to Woodland Cemetery, where they were placed in an unmarked grave. Francis Glass met J. N. Reynolds in Ohio in 1823, and it was Reynolds who saw Glass’ life of Washington in Latin through the press.

 

Criticism:

  • Review of Washingtonii Vita (A Life of Washington in Latin Prose)
    • Review of Washingtonii Vita   (December 1835, text “A” — Southern Literary Messenger)
    • Review of Washingtonii Vita   (1836, text “B” — one of several “Testimonials” printed as advertisements in A Life of George Washington) (reprinted from the Southern Literary Messenger, without Poe’s name)

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Bibliography:

  • Duyckinck, E. A. and G. L., “Francis Glass,” Cyclopedia of American Literature, New York: Charles Scribner, 1856, 1:673-674
  • Heartman, Charles F. and James R. Canny, A Bibliography of First Printings of the Writings of Edgar Allan Poe, Hattiesburg, MS: The Book Farm, 1943.
  • Mabbott, Thomas Ollive, ed., The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Vols 2-3 Tales and Sketches), Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1978. (Second printing 1979)
  • Thomas, Dwight and David K. Jackson, The Poe Log: A Documentary Life of Edgar Allan Poe 1809-1849, Boston: G. K. Hall & Sons, 1987.

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