Richard Eugene Burton. "Born in Hartford, Conn., 1859; educated at Trinity and Johns Hopkins, receiving the degree of Ph.D. at the latter. He was married in London in 1889, and is a resident of Brooklyn, N.Y. His sonnets have appeared in the Century, etc. (Crandall)
"Contributor to magazines." (Sharp)
(Texts above from Representative Sonnets by American Poets .)
If So
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