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Isaac McLellan was born on May 21, 1806, in Portland, Maine. He was the son of Isaac and Eliza (Hull) McLellan. When he was thirteen his family moved to Boston.
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Isaac McLellan was born on May 21, 1806, in Portland, Maine. He was the son of Isaac and Eliza (Hull) McLellan. When he was thirteen his family moved to Boston.
With his friend, Nathaniel P. Willis, McLellan attended Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachussets, and from there he proceeded to Bowdoin, graduating in 1826. He then returned to Boston and devoted his time to law and journalism.
McLellan was associate editor of the Boston Patriot and Daily Mercantile Advertiser, merged in 1831 with the Boston Daily Advertiser, and he began the publication of a monthly magazine which was consolidated with the Boston Pearl, previously edited by Isaac C. Pray. For two years in the forties, he traveled in Europe. Upon his return he gave up law and journalism, turning exclusively to the life of an ardent sportsman and poet of sport. He never married. After 1851, he made his home in Greenport, Long Island, in an unpretentious board house on Barnegat Bay. He became an active member of the group of New York sportsmen which included William T. Porter, of the Spirit of the Times, Henry William Herbert ("Frank Forester"), Genio C. Scott, Edward Zane Carroll Judson ("Ned Buntline"), and Harry Fenwood. He had been a frequent contributor of prose and verse to the magazines of the day, and he now wrote for the sporting journals, principally Turf, Field and Farm; Forest and Stream; American Angler; Amateur Sportsman, and Gameland. Most of his poetry, though little of his prose, was from time to time reprinted in book form. His first book, The Fall of the Indian with Other Poems (1830), with a timid preface, is heavy with youthful, literary melancholy and elegy, strange perhaps in view of the actual devotion to sport. The graveyard strain is continued in Mount Auburn and Other Poems (1843), the title poem being a detailed, annotated elegy over the dead in Mount Auburn Cemetery (where he himself was later buried), and in a fugitive broadside, "Paradise Spring, " a poem read before the Phi Beta Kappa society of Bowdoin, September 3, 1835. The outward aspects of Nature do enter these poems, often in expressive epithet, but it is not until the appearance of Poems of the Rod and Gun, or Sports by Flood and Field (1886), edited by Frederick E. Pond ("Will Wildwood"), that McLellan became, for the reader familiar only with the collected poems, the sportsman's poet. This and his last volume, Haunts of Wild Game, or Poems of Woods, Wilds and Waters (1896), edited by Charles Barker Bradford, are true curiosities in American poetry. They are nothing short of natural histories in verse of the United States and other regions. To invest such subjects as "Bison-hunting in the Far West, " "Elephant-hunting in the Island of Ceylon, " and "My Parker Gun" with genuine poetry is often beyond his power, as it indeed might be beyond that of any poet, but he was the spokesman in verse of a generation of American sportsmen which, like the noble Indian whom he mourned, has passed away. While in Virginia he contributed a valuable sketch to his friend Genio C. Scott's "Fishing in American Waters, " and also supplied the poetical gems in that standard work. In later life he contributed occasionally to the sporting journals of the day - the Turf, Field and Farm, Forest and Stream, American Angler, etc. , besides the Home Journal and other periodicals of high literary merit. His closing years were spent at Greenport, Long Island. Here he died of exhaustion, due to old age, on 20 August, 1899.
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Quotations:
"Time's flying wheel leaves little trace behind. "
"On every thing are traced decay and change. Look! how the shifting seasons slip away. "
"The rich pearl of life, Soon moulders in its blackened urn, the tomb. "
"Go and walk with Nature; thou wilt find Full many a gem in her enchanted cup. "
McLellan was engaged in agricultural pursuits and the rural life. His passionate love for field-sports, and more especially wild fowl shooting, inspired him to write in prose and verse on sporting subjects; for this work, Willis and other distinguished writers have given McLellan the credit of being in several respects the finest poet in America.
Among the favorite shooting resorts he frequented were Cohasset, Plymouth, and Marshfield, Massachusetts, the latter being the rural home of the statesman, Daniel Webster. Through his courtesy, McLellan passed two seasons at Marshfield, dwelling at one of the farm houses belonging to Webster. Here he had an opportunity of seeing the great sportsman almost daily, enjoying his usual labors and his rambles with rod or gun.
Quotes from others about the person
"McLellan is as a poet on field-sports what Gen. George Pope Morris was as a song-writer both unsurpassed in their way. "
Yet before literature, and throughout McLelland's life, he had a passion for the "gun and the rod" which led him to devote the major portion of his later life to hunting. During college days, he would hunt on Saturdays with a fellow student. His leisure time in Boston was dedicated to the sport of wild fowl shooting upon the seacoast - this being the principal pastime of many New Englandsportsmen.
McLellan never married.