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Evert Augustus Duyckinck (pronounced DIE-KINK)(November 23, 1816 – August 13, 1878) was an American publisher and biographer. He was associated with the literary side of the Young America movement in New York.〔Duberman, Martin. ''James Russell Lowell''. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1966: 50.〕 ==Biography== He was born on November 23, 1816, in New York City to Evert Duyckinck, a publisher.〔〔Nelson, Randy F. ''The Almanac of American Letters''. Los Altos, California: William Kaufmann, Inc., 1981: 48. ISBN 0-86576-008-X〕 Evert the younger graduated from Columbia College in 1835. He then studied law with John Anthon, and was admitted to the bar in 1837.〔 He spent the next year in Europe. Before he went abroad he wrote articles on the poet George Crabbe, the works of George Herbert, and Oliver Goldsmith, for the ''New York Review''.〔Delbanco, Andrew: ''Melville, His World and Work''. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005: 93. ISBN 0-375-40314-0〕 In 1840 he started a monthly magazine with Cornelius Mathews called ''Arcturus'', which ran until 1842. The ''New York Tribune'' commented on the important partnership by referring to Duyckinck and Mathews as "the Castor and Pollux of Literature—the Gemini of the literary Zodiac".〔Widmer, Edward L. ''Young America: Flowering of Democracy in New York City''. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999: 110. ISBN 0-19-514062-1〕 Duyckinck wrote articles on other authors while at home and in Europe. Between 1844 and 1846, Evert became the literary editor of John L. O'Sullivan's ''The United States Magazine and Democratic Review'', which moved from Washington D.C. to New York in 1840. On April 22, 1840 in Connecticut he married Margaret Wolfe Panton, and they had as their children: Evert Augustus Duyckinck II, George Duyckinck, and Henry Duyckinck (1843-1870). All of his children died when they were young.〔 In 1845, he assisted Edgar Allan Poe in printing his ''Tales'' collection and selected which stories to include. The collection was a critical success, though Poe was somewhat disappointed by Duyckinck's choices.〔Sova, Dawn B. ''Edgar Allan Poe: A to Z''. New York: Checkmark Books, 2001: 75. ISBN 0-8160-4161-X〕 In 1847 he became the editor of The Literary World, a weekly review of books written with his brother George Long Duyckinck until 1853. The two brothers became the unofficial leaders of the New York literary scene in the 1840s into the 1850s.〔 In 1854 the brothers were again united in the preparation of ''The Cyclopaedia of American Literature'' (2 vols., New York, 1855; enlarged eds., 1865 and 1875). He published ''Wit and Wisdom of Sydney Smith'', with a memoir (New York, 1856); an American edition of Willroot's ''Poets of the Nineteenth Century'' (1858). Immediately after the death of Washington Irving, Duyckinck gathered together and published in one volume a collection of anecdotes and traits of the author, under the title of ''Irvingiana'' (1859); ''History of the War for the Union'' (3 vols., 1861'5); ''Memorials of John Allan'' (1864); ''Poems relating to the American Revolution, with Memoirs of the Authors'' (1865); ''Poems of Philip Freneau'', with notes and a memoir (1865); ''National Gallery of Eminent Americans'' (2 vols., 1866); ''History of the World from the Earliest Period to the Present Time'' (4 vols., 1870); and an extensive series of ''Biographies of Eminent Men and Women of Europe and America'' (2 vols., 1873'4). His last literary work was the preparation, with William Cullen Bryant, of an edition of William Shakespeare. He died on August 13, 1878 in New York City, New York. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Evert Augustus Duyckinck」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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