Student compositions of Washington Allston,
Handwritten essay about procrastination and a poem celebrating spring composed by Washington Allston while he was an undergraduate at Harvard. The essay uses a story about a young Italian named Bernardo to discuss the consequences of procrastination. The essay is labeled “Allston Novem. ’99" an...
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| 100 | 1 | |a Allston, Washington, |d 1779-1843. | |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Student compositions of Washington Allston, |f 1799. |
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| 500 | |a Title supplied by cataloger. Item received January 19, 1923 from the library of Professor Charles Eliot Norton. | ||
| 520 | 2 | |a Handwritten essay about procrastination and a poem celebrating spring composed by Washington Allston while he was an undergraduate at Harvard. The essay uses a story about a young Italian named Bernardo to discuss the consequences of procrastination. The essay is labeled “Allston Novem. ’99" and is titled with a quote from Edward Young's poem "The Complaint," “Procrastination is Theif [sic] of time.” Allston’s poem celebrates spring and incorporates Phillida and Corydon, two characters from Nicholas Breton’s poem “Phillida and Cordion.” The poem is titled with the verses, “Chief, lovely spring, in thee, and thy soft scenes, / The smiling God is seen” from James Thompson's poem “Spring.” The poem is labeled "Allston July 10, 1799." | |
| 545 | 0 | |a Washington Allston (1779-1843), an influential American painter and poet, was born on November 5, 1779 in Waccamaw Parish, South Carolina. He received an AB from Harvard in 1800. Allston was admitted to the Royal Academy in London in 1801 and traveled through Europe before settling in London. Allston was a well-known painter when in 1813 he published his first book of poetry, The Sylphs of the Seasons, with Other Poems. In 1818, Allston returned to the United States and lived in Cambridge, Mass. until his death on July 9, 1843. | |
| 500 | |a The bottom third of the poem is missing. The essay is torn and is accompanied by a photocopy. | ||
| 544 | 1 | |d The student essays of Joseph Stevens Buckminster (HUC 8799.386.10) in the |a Harvard University Archives |n contain a 1799 essay also titled, "Procrastination is the thief of time." | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Conduct of life |v Early works to 1800. | |
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| 610 | 2 | 0 | |a Harvard College (1780- ). |b Class of 1800. |
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| 700 | 1 | |a Norton, Charles Eliot, |d 1827-1908, |e donor. | |
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