Jackson Bibliography of Romantic Poetry

DEVENS, Richard (1749-1835: Hollis)

Born in Charlestown MA to Richard and Mary Devens, he graduated from Princeton in 1767. He became Professor of Mathematics at Princeton but in 1774 he had a mental breakdown and the trustees dismissed him. He returned to Charlestown and lived there until his death, "an affecting, living monument to parents and near connexions" who might invest all their hopes in one brilliant youth, according to the relative quoted in the preface to the 1795 edition of A Paraphrase. (James McLachlan, Princetonians 1748-1786 [1976]) HJ

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