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Grenville Mellen was the son of Prentiss Mellen and Sarah (Hudson) Mellen. He was born on June 19, 1799, at Biddeford, now in the state of Maine, before his father's removal to Portland.
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Grenville Mellen was the son of Prentiss Mellen and Sarah (Hudson) Mellen. He was born on June 19, 1799, at Biddeford, now in the state of Maine, before his father's removal to Portland.
Mellen attended Portland Academy and entered Harvard in 1814. In college he cultivated his interests in poetry and oratory and was class poet at graduation in 1818. He next attended the newly established Harvard Law School until 1820, spent another year in his father's law office, was admitted to the Maine bar, and practised his first year at Thomaston.
In the autumn of 1823 Mellen settled at North Yarmouth, Maine. The first of many occasional poems, his "Ode" for the two-hundredth anniversary of the landing at Plymouth, December 22, 1820, was followed by another for the dedication of the Bunker Hill Monument in June 1825. Together with his fellow townsman, Henry W. Longfellow, he contributed poems, prose sketches, and tales to the United States Literary Gazette and to the annuals, the Atlantic Souvenir and the Legendary. His volume of Sad Tales and Glad Tales, by "Reginald Reverie, " published at Boston in 1828, is interesting chiefly as pioneer work leading up to the short story as later developed by Hawthorne and Poe. His tales show the influence of Irving, but are more diffuse, sentimental, and mystifying. His health was undermined; he lived an unsettled life at North Yarmouth, Portland, and Boston; tried vainly for a diplomatic post in the Netherlands; and for a few months in 1829 acted as editor of the Portland Advertiser. At Boston he delivered in 1830 the Harvard Phi Beta Kappa poem, "The Age of Print, " and in September 1833 published a volume of verse, The Martyr's Triumph; Buried Valley; and Other Poems. His poetry, largely influenced by Byron, has at its best a delicacy of which Byron was seldom capable.
After 1836, Mellen lived mostly at New York, in the household of Samuel Colman, for whom he acted as co-editor of the Monthly Miscellany in 1839. He also delivered the Yale Phi Beta Kappa poem for that year. He devoted his last days to historical and statistical compilations, A Book of the United States (1838), and "General View of the American Continent, " left in manuscript at his death. A voyage to Havana in the winter of 1839-40 failed to benefit his health, and he died at Colman's home late in the following summer.
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John Neal, his friend, was justified in saying about Grenville Mellen: "He dealt too much in mystery the mystery of language, not of thought".
"As a poet, he enjoyed a higher reputation in his lifetime than his works will preserve. They are without vigour of thought or language, and are often dreamy, mystic, and unintelligible. In his writings there is no evidence of creative genius; no original, clear, and manly thought; no spirited and natural descriptions of life or nature; no humour, no pathos, no passion; nothing that appeals to the common sympathies of mankind. "
Editor Michael Laird Simmons exclaims, "A glance at his poems shows a delicate susceptibility to poetical impression, tinged with an air of melancholy. "
Mellen was married, September 9, 1824, to Mary King Southgate, and lived happily, much in demand as a local orator and poet. The deaths of Mellen's infant daughter in September 1828, and of his wife in the following May were blows from which he never recovered.