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Boker, George Henry (1823–1890)| US playwright, poet, and diplomat. His verse play Francesca da Rimini (1855) is sometimes claimed to be the greatest US tragedy of the 19th century. Boker was also well known for his sonnets, of which he wrote over 300. His chief works were collected in Plays and Poems (1856). |
| He was US minister to Turkey 1871–75 and Russia 1875–79. |
| Other plays include Calaynos (1848), a blank verse tragedy of medieval Spain, and Leonor de Guzmán (1853). The poetry collection Königsmark, The Legend of the Hounds, and Other Poems appeared in 1869. |
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