Writing
Pinkney is often compared with the Cavalier poets. He wrote a number of light, graceful, short poems, his longest being "Rudolph", which was published anonymously in 1825. His first full collection of poetry was published the same year. He was influenced by the work of Lord Byron, William Wordsworth, Walter Scott and other European writers. He was not influenced by American poets. He was also inspired by classical works and made several references to Ovid, Herodotus, Horace, and Petrarch. He was included in Rufus Wilmot Griswold's influential anthology The Poets and Poetry of America in 1842.
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