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| | John Danforth Biography | Dictionary of Literary Biography |
 | | The most prolific of the poets in the Danforth family, John Danforth was the son of Samuel and Mary Danforth and the elder brother of Samuel Danforth II. |
 | | Danforth experimented with poetry in many genres, exchanged manuscripts of verses with Edward Taylor and Samuel Sewall, and managed to have nearly every poem he wrote published, often appending them to appropriate sermons. |
 | | In all his lyrics, almanac verse, epigrams, anagrams, epitaphs, and verse epistles, Danforth worked, as he did in his elegies, to serve the community of poets, the community of the elect, and the community of Dorchester, where he died in 1730. |
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