Dowe, Mrs. Jennie, E. T. Her best work is to be found in the Century Magazine, where she, every now and again, fills a page or two with graceful and fantastical verse, usually employing a slight dialect of one sort or another. Her poems are full of life and music, and are decidedly clever.
Drake, Joseph Rodman (1795-1820), co-author with Halleck of the Croaker Papers, and author of The Culprit Fay.
Drummond, Dr. W. H., a resident of Montreal, Canada. He is a master of the French-Canadian dialect, and in verse has the field pretty much to himself. His Wreck of the Julie Plante is the most popular humorous song Canada has produced.
Duncan, Sarah Jeannette. See Cotes, Mrs.
Dunlop, William, born in Scotland 1795 (?), died in Canada 1848. He contributed to Blackwood’s Magazine “The Autobiography of a Rat,” founded the Toronto Literary Society, and represented Huron County in the first parliament after the union of Upper and Lower Canada.
Dwight, Timothy (1752-1817), President of Yale College, and hymn-writer of note. Among his many published works is Triumph of Infidelity, a satire.
Edwards, Edward E., the author of “Facts and Fancies” in the Boston Transcript.
Fay, Theodore Sedgewick, born 1807, an associate of Morris and Willis in the New York Mirror. Mr. Fay, about 1830, joined the diplomatic service, and was stationed at Berlin and Berne for years. He published many works of a quietly humorous character.
Fessenden, Thomas Green (1771-1837). When at Dartmouth College he wrote “Jonathan’s Courtship,” a ballad which became popular, and was reprinted in England. He studied law and wrote humorous verse until 1801, when he was sent to England with a newly-patented hydraulic machine which proved a failure. This and other patents in which he experimented ruined him. Returning to America, he edited for a time the New York Weekly Inspector, and from this time till his death was connected with one paper or another. His published works include Democracy Unveiled, “Pills, Poetical, Political, and Philosophical, prescribed for the purpose of purging the Public of—Philosophers, Penny Poetasters, of Paltry Politicians and Petty Partisans. By Peter Pepperbox, Poet and Physician, Philadelphia.”
Field, Eugene (1850). During the year 1891 Mr. Field made a successful début before the reading public of Great Britain with his Little Book of Western Verse, and Little Book of Profitable Tales, published by Osgood, McIlvain, & Co. For many years past Mr. Field has been the chief humorist of Chicago, and in verse and prose holds an honoured place among the present-day writers of America. He is equally at home in prose and verse.