the United States. At this time he was depressed, feeling that both his literary and diplomatic careers had been failures. In 1882 Lawrence Barrett mounted a revival of Francesca da Rimini. This brought more public interest in Boker and his other work, which necessitated the reprinting of several of his books. In 1884, he was elected as a member to the American Philosophical Society. His home in Philadelphia—one of the literary centres of the time,—bore traces of his Turkish stay—carpets brought from Constantinople, Arabic designs on the draperies, and rich Eastern colours in the tapestried chairs. Boker was also a director of the Mechanics National Bank of Philadelphia for several years later in his life. Boker died on January 2, 1890, in Philadelphia and was interred at Laurel Hill Cemetery. In addition to the works already mentioned, Boker also wrote hundreds of sonnets. A collection of these, Sequence on Profane Love, was discovered in manuscript after his death, and published in 1927. He has been compared to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow as one of the premier American sonnet writers. Bibliography Calaynos: A Tragedy, E.H. Butler & Co., 1848 Anne Boleyn: A Tragedy, A. Hart, 1850 The Podesta's Daughter and other Miscellaneous Poems, A. Hart, 1852 Poems of the War, Ticknor and Fields, 1864 Königsmark - The Legend of the Hounds and Other Poems, J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1869 Plays and Poems, J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1869 Notes References External links 1823 births 1890 deaths 19th-century American diplomats 19th-century American dramatists and playwrights 19th-century American male writers 19th-century American poets Ambassadors of the United States to the Ottoman Empire Ambassadors of the United States to Russia American male poets Burials at Laurel Hill Cemetery (Philadelphia) Members of the Philadelphia Club Pennsylvania Republicans Princeton University alumni Sonneteers Writers from Philadelphia Members of the American Philosophical Society