ID: 901002045 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ia/901002045	Record Type: Literature

	The Foresters (poem, Alexander Wilson, 1838)

Note: First appeared serially in 1809–1810 in the "The Port Folio," then published in book form in 1818. One of the earliest descriptions of the American wilderness.

Display Date: published 1838

Names:

	The Foresters (poem, Alexander Wilson, 1838) (preferred,English-P,D,P)
	The Foresters: a poem, descriptive of a pedestrian journey to the falls of Niagara, in the autumn of 1804 (poem, Alexander Wilson, 1838) (English)

Hierarchical Position:

		Literature and Performing Arts (P)
		....<Named written and performed works> (P)
		........<Literary works: Poetry> (P)
		............The Foresters (poem, Alexander Wilson, 1838) (I)

Other Relationships:

	role/characteristic is .... poem
	.....(poetry and poems, genres for literature, genres in literature and performing arts, concepts in the arts and humanities, Associated Concepts (hierarchy name)) (AAT)

	topic is .... Niagara Falls
	.....(North and Central America) (TGN)

	writer is .... Alexander Wilson (Scottish printmaker and naturalist, 1766-1813, active in the United States)
	.....(Persons, Artists) (ULAN)

Sources:

	The Foresters (poem, Alexander Wilson, 1838)
	................Metropolitan Museum of Art [online] (2001-)
	The Foresters: a poem, descriptive of a pedestrian journey to the falls of Niagara, in the autumn of 1804 (poem, Alexander Wilson, 1838)
	................Library of Congress (2016-)

Iconography Record Sources:

	................ Library of Congress (2016-)
	................ Metropolitan Museum of Art [online] (2001-)