![]() ![]() His travels to California, to report on the gold rush, Panama, and Mexico inspired him to publish Eldorado (1850). While in New York, Taylor contributed a weekly column to the Literary World and then managed the literary department at the Tribune. Taylor took this advice to heart, writing to New York editors including Horace Greeley, Rufus Griswold, and William Cullen Bryant. Your book has made you a name which would give your union to any paper great value" (Willis, "Personal Letter" 101). ![]() Picturesque europe full#The town is full of five-dollar-a-week men, but they don't stand at all in your way. This is fair play, where the property of an establishment is made by your underpaid industry. In the wake of his successful book, Taylor spent some time in Pennsylvania running the Gazette (rechristened the Pioneer) and then returned to New York in December 1847, possibly following Willis' suggestion that he "e willing to go in at a small hole, like a lean rat, trusting to increase so much that you cannot be got out without destroying what took you in. Taylor's excursion to Europe, for which he wrote letters detailing his travels and experiences, was funded by the Saturday Evening Post, the United States Gazette of Philadelphia, and the New York Tribune (Van Doren, "Bayard Taylor"). Willis introduced him to Horace Greeley and later wrote an introduction to Views Afoot (1846), Taylor's account of his experiences abroad. He traveled to Europe soon after before leaving, he visited New York and met Nathaniel Parker Willis, a frequenter of Pfaff's and an admirer of Edgar Allan Poe. Rufus Wilmot Griswold, editor of Graham's Magazine, encouraged Taylor to publish his first volume of poetry, Ximena (1844). Taylor began writing poems as a child and served an apprenticeship at the West Chester Village Record. Born in rural Chester County, Pennsylvania, Bayard Taylor's ancestors were Quakers with ties to William Penn. ![]()
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