“The undersigned informs honorable men that he has found him unpossessed of courage to make satisfaction for the insolence of his folly. Saying thus much, the undersigned commits the craven to his infamy.”
About Edward Coote Pinkney
1 October 1802–11 April 1828
In the pantheon of American Romantic poetry, few figures burn as brightly—or as briefly—as Edward Coote Pinkney. Born into privilege on October 1, 1802, in London, England, and dying in poverty on April 11, 1828, in Baltimore, Maryland, Pinkney's twenty-five years encompassed a lifetime of passion, rebellion, literary…