That same year, Horace Greeley, then editor of the Tribune, placed Taylor on his staff, thus securing Taylor a certain if moderate income. He was asked to serve as an editorial assistant for Graham's Magazine for a few months in 1848. This book's success brought Taylor recognition as an author. In 1846, he published Views Afoot, or Europe seen with Knapsack and Staff (2 vols, New York). The hilly Cotswold region is a designated 'Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty' in southwestern England, and one of its loveliest villages is Bibury, where. The accounts which he sent from Europe to The New York Tribune, The Saturday Evening Post, and The United States Gazette were so highly appreciated that on Taylor's return to America, he was advised to compile his articles into book form. Picturesque Europe: A Delineation by Pen and Pencil of the Natural Features and the Picturesque and Historical Places of Great Britain and the Continent. The young poet spent a happy time in roaming on foot through certain districts of England, France, Germany and Italy this tour of almost two years cost him only £100. With the money from his poetry and an advance for some journalistic work to be done in Europe, Taylor set sail for Europe. It made little income, but indirectly was a means of his introduction to The New York Tribune. Published at Philadelphia in 1844, Ximena, or the Battle of the Sierra Morena, and other Poems was dedicated to Griswold. These four volumes have fine and sharp plates some with a little. Picturesque Europe, Cassell, 5 Volume Set, Complete, Henry Sotheran binding Picturesque Europe, with Illustrations on Steel and Wood by the Most Eminent. His interest in poetry was coached by the influential critic and editor Rufus Wilmot Griswold, who encouraged him to write a volume of poetry. The Picturesque Europe volumes were reprinted many times in cheap editions and re-issues.

Bayard Taylor was a poet, literary critic, translator, fiction and travel author.

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