Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 May 1885 — Ages of Authors. [ARTICLE]

Ages of Authors.

Authors are proverbiably a long-lived race, bnt there are many exceptions to the rule. Chatterton, Keats and Kirke White died in early manhood. Keats was only 25; Artemus Ward died at 33; Byron at 36; Burns at 37 ; Charlotte Bronte at 39; Edgar Allan Poe at 40; Goldsmith at 46; Balzac at 51; Mrs. E. B. Browning, Shakspeare, and Thackeray at 52; Charles Kingsley at 56; Dickens at 58; Hawthorne at 50; Scott at 61; Boccaccio at 62; Milton and Agassiz at 66; Dumas senior at 67; Bulwer at 68; Hans Andersen at 70; Chaucer at 72; De Quincey at 74; Samuel Johnson at 75; Irving at 76; Beranger at 77; Goethe, at 83, lived through three generations.