About William Davis Gallagher
William Davis Gallagher (August 21, 1808, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – June 27, 1894) was an American poet and publisher. He worked as an editor for various newspapers and in later years became famous for poetry. His first poetical contribution that attracted general attention was The Wreck of the Hornet. This was reprinted in a collection of his poems entitled Errato. In 1841, Davis compiled Selections from the Poetical Literature of the West, one of the earliest American regional poetry anthologies; it included poems by 38 writers in the West, including Gallagher's own very popular poem Miami Woods. His poetry is available in numerous anthologies. His latest volumes is A Golden Wedding and Other Poems, (1881). His next and concluding volume will comprise Ballads of the Border, Civile Bellum, being poems of the civil war, and New Fables of the Old Fairies. He died in 1894.Browse all poems and texts published on William Davis Gallagher
