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__** George Henry Boker **__ // American Playwright and Poet of the 1800s //



**Civil War Poet**.............................................. Minister to Turkey  Minister to Russia .............................................................................. //Founder of Nassau Monthly//  Founder and President of the Union League of Philadelphia

 Director of Mechanics National Bank................................. __Playwright of Historical Dramas__

All these things come to mind when we think of George Henry Boker. He was not your typical poet; though he wrote dozens of plays and penned hundreds of poems, songs, and sonnets, George Henry Boker lived a very full life, founding organizations, representing the United States in Eastern Europe, and serving the city of Philadelphia and his country in any way he could, through whatever positions they put him in. During the Civil War he put his pen to work, inspiring young men to join the army and fueling support for the war in the North. Though his poems of the war were good, he excelled in his historical dramas and the other theatrical performances he penned, and was also known as one of the greatest American sonnet writers. Not just a poet, not just a playwright, not just civil servant, George Henry Boker was all these things and more.



By Benjamin Goes