Samuel Kettell (1800–1855) was an American author.[1] He also wrote under the name "Sampson Short-and-fat".[2]
He compiled Specimens of American Poetry, with Critical and Biographical Notices, the first comprehensive anthology of American poetry, which was published by
Samuel Griswold Goodrich in 1829. The three volume collection included 188 poets, a historical introduction, and chronological listing of American poetry.[3] The volumes came to be dubbed "Goodrich's Kettle of Poetry."[4]
^Joseph F. Clarke (1977). Pseudonyms. BCA. p. 149.
^Daniel S. Burt. (2004). The Chronology of American Literature: America's literary achievements from the colonial era to modern times. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
ISBN978-0-618-16821-7.
^Vanderbilt, Kermit. American Literature and the Academy, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1986