Morris, George Pope

Morris, George Pope

(1802–64) journalist, poet; born in Philadelphia. His periodical, the New-York Mirror and Ladies Literary Gazette and its successor, the New Mirror, were vehicles for William Cullen Bryant and other New York writers of the 1840s. He later edited the Evening Mirror and the Home Journal, and he published many of his own popular poems, including the familiar "Woodman, Spare That Tree"; critics generally found his verse insipid and sentimental.