William Howe Cuyler Hosmer
William Howe Cuyler Hosmer or William H. C. Hosmer was a poet from the United States.
He was a cousin of sculptor Harriet Hosmer and tragic actress Jean Hosmer.Biography
Hosmer was born in Avon, New York, as the son of lawyer George Hosmer. He graduated at the University of Vermont in 1841, studied law, and became a master in chancery at Avon, and in 1854 was appointed clerk in the New York City Custom House. He was a student of the character and lore of the Native Americans in the United States, and traveled extensively among the tribes of Florida and Wisconsin.
Hosmer's lengthy narrative poem Yonnondio, or the Warriors of Genesee may have inspired or informed a short poem of the same name by Walt Whitman.Literary works
