Editing George Bancroft (section)

==Early career==
Bancroft returned to the United States in 1822. While the young man delivered several sermons at his father's behest shortly after his return, his love of literature proved a stronger attachment.

His first position was as a tutor of Greek at Harvard. Bancroft chafed at the narrow curriculum of Harvard in his day and the pedantic spirit of its classics curriculum. Moreover, his personal affect of ardent [[Romanticism]] subjected him to ridicule among the formal society of New England and his political sympathies for [[Jacksonian democracy]] put him at odds with nearly all of the Boston elite.{{citation needed|date=May 2021}}

===Round Hill School===
In 1823, he published his first work, a little volume of poetry, translations and original pieces, which brought no fame. Bancroft finally left Cambridge and with [[Joseph Cogswell]] established the [[Round Hill School]] at [[Northampton, Massachusetts]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Handlin |first1=Lilian |chapter=Bancroft, George (1800–1891), scholar and diplomat |chapter-url=https://www.anb.org/view/10.1093/anb/9780198606697.001.0001/anb-9780198606697-e-1400034 |title=American National Biography |year=2000 |doi=10.1093/anb/9780198606697.article.1400034 |isbn=978-0-19-860669-7 |access-date=24 October 2022|chapter-url-access=subscription}}</ref>

While at Round Hill, Bancroft contributed frequently to the ''[[North American Review]]'' and ''American Quarterly''. He also made a translation of [[Arnold Hermann Ludwig Heeren]]'s work on ''The Politics of Ancient Greece''.  In 1836, he published an oration advocating universal suffrage and the foundation of the state on the power of the whole people.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Bancroft |first1=George |title=An Oration Delivered Before the Democracy of Springfield And Neighboring Towns, July 4, 1836 |date=1836 |publisher=Hampden Whig |location=Hampden, Massachusetts |edition=2. |url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/101732245 |access-date=24 October 2022}}</ref>

===State politics===
In 1830, he was elected to the [[Massachusetts State Senate]] from Northampton without his knowledge by the support of the [[Working Men's Party (New York)|Working Men's Party]], but refused to take his seat.<ref>{{cite book|title=Political Changes in Massachusetts, 1824–1848|last=Darling|first=Arthur B.|publisher=Yale University Press|date=1925|location=New Haven, Conn.|url=https://archive.org/details/politicalchanges00darl/page/98/mode/2up|page=99}}</ref> and the next year he declined another nomination, though certain to have been elected, for the state senate.