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Paul Hamilton Hayne
F. V. N. Painter, Poets of the South; a Series
of Biographical and Critical Studies Paul Hamilton Hayne was born in Charleston, South Carolina, on January 1, 1830. Hayne's father, Robert Y. Hayne (1791-1839), was a lawyer and politician. Hayne lost his father while he was still an infant and was raised by his mother in the home of a prosperous and cultured Charleston uncle, Robert Y. Hayne, a notable orator who served in the United States Senate. He attended Charleston city schools and the College of Charleston, from which he graduated in 1852. He practiced law for a short time but abandoned the legal profession to pursue his literary interests. Hayne served in the Confederate Army, beginning in 1861, as staff aide to Governor Pickens and remained in the Army until his health failed. Hayne lost all his possessions when Charleston was bombarded. "His house with his fine library and other property having been burned during the bombardment of Charleston, he removed, in 1866, with his family to a farm in the pine woods about sixteen miles from Augusta, Georgia." [George Armstrong Wauchope, The Writers of South Carolina: With a Critical Introduction, Biographical Sketches, and Selections in Prose and Verse 203-212, at 203 (Columbia, South Carolina: The State Co., Publishers, 1910)] In Groveton, Georgia, where he lived until his death, Hayne gave up the practice of law, and took on editorial positions, including the editorship of Russell's Magazine, which was promoted by William Gilmore Simms and the Charleston Literary Gazette. He also contributed to the Southern Literary Messenger, Home Journal, and Southern Bivouac. Hayne published various collections of poems, including a complete edition in 1882, that contained romantic verse, long narrative poems, and ballads. Like so many of his fellow Southern poets, he was fond of nature and made it a subject of his poetry. Rutherford notes that Hayne was "[p]ossibly the most active spirit in the literary movement of the South" and that "his war songs are his best lyrics." In her estimation, "[n]o Southern poet has written so much or done so much to give a literary impulse to this section of the country, and he deserves to be called the "Laureate of the South." [Rutherford, supra at 452] Hayne died at his home, Copse Hill, at Grovetown, Georgia, on July 6, 1886. [Sources: "Paul Hamilton Hayne, Charleston, South Carolina: Writer of the Republic," in Mildred Lewis Rutherford, The South in History and Literature, A Hand-Book of Southern Authors, From the Settlement of Jamestown, 1667 to Living Writers 452-462 (Atlanta: Franklin-Turner Co., 1907)(1906); George Armstrong Wauchope, The Writers of South Carolina: With a Critical Introduction, Biographical Sketches, and Selections in Prose and Verse 203 (Columbia, South Carolina: The State Co., Publishers, 1910)] Palmetto
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Poems ["October"; "On the Occurrence of a Spell of Arctic Weather in May"; "Earth Odors—After Rain"; "Fate, or God?"; "Aspects of the Pines"; "Sweetheart", "Good-Bye!"; "After the Tornado"; "Lyric of Action"; "The Shallow Heart!"; "Windless Rain"; "Cloud Fantasies"; "Song of the Naiads"; "Now, while the rear-guard of the flying year"; "On the Decline of Faith"; "Harvest-Home" — online text] [Aspects of the Pines] [Aspects of the Pines] [Tristram of the Wood] [Vicksburg] [Vicksburg] [Between the Sunken Sun and the New Moon] [A Storm in the Distance] [The Rose and Thorn] [A Little While I Fain Would Linger Yet] [In Harbor] [Selected Sonnets] Between the Sunken Sun and the New Moon Poetry Paul Hamilton Hayne, Poems (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1855) ________________, Sonnets, and Other Poems (Charleston: Harper and Calvo, 1857) ________________, Avolio; A Legend of the Island of Cos. With Poems, Lyrical, Miscellaneous, and Dramatic (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1860) [online text] ________________, Legends and Lyrics (Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1872) [online text] ________________, The Mountain of the Lovers; with Poems of Nature and Tradition (New York: E. J. Hale & Son, 1875) [online text] ________________, Poems of Paul Hamilton Hayne (Boston: D. Lothrop and Company, 1882) [online text] (New York: AMS Press, 1970) Samuel Albert Link (ed.), Selected Poems of Paul Hamilton Hayne (Dansville, New York: F.A. Owen, 1920)(including a biographical sketch) Correspondence Daniel Morley McKeithan (ed.), A Collection of Hayne Letters (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1944)(Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1970) Rayburn S. Moore (ed.), A Man of Letters in the Nineteenth-Century South: Selected Letters of Paul Hamilton Hayne (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1982) Charles Duffy (ed.), The Correspondence of Bayard Taylor and Paul Hamilton Hayne (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1945) Richard Beale Davis, The Southern Dilemma: The Unpublished Letters of Paul Hamilton Hayne, 17 (1) Journal of Southern History 64 (1951) Writings Paul Hamilton Hayne (ed.), The Poems of Henry Timrod, with a Sketch of the Poet's Life (New York: E. J. Hale, rev. ed., 1872) [online text] [Henry Timrod] ________________, Lives of Robert Young Hayne and Hugh Swinton Legare (Charleston, South Carolina: Walker, Evans & Cogswell, 1878) Bibliography J.W. Abernethy, The Southern Poets: Selected Poems of Sidney Lanier, Henry Timrod, Paul Hamilton Hayne with Biographical and Critical Introductions and Explanatory Notes (New York: Maynard, Merrill, & Co. 1904) [online text] Kate Harbes Becker, Paul Hamilton Hayne: Life and Letters (Belmont, North Carolina: Outline Co., 1951) Jack De Bellis (ed.), Sidney Lanier, Henry Timrod & Paul Hamilton Hayne: A Reference Guide (Boston: G.K. Hall & Co. 1978) [Sidney Lanier] [Henry Timrod] Charles Duffy (ed.), The Correspondence of Bayard Taylor and Paul Hamilton Hayne (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1945) Rayburn S. Moore, Paul Hamilton Hayne (New York: Twayne: 1972) ______________ (ed.), A Man of Letters in the Nineteenth-Century South: Selected Letters of Paul Hamilton Hayne (Baton Rouge: & Louisiana State University Press, 1982) Daniel Morley McKeithan (ed.), A Collection of Hayne Letters (Westport: Greenwood Press, 1944)(Austin: University of Texas Press, 1944) John Garland James & Daniel Morley McKeithan (eds.), Selected Letters: John Garland James to Paul Hamilton Hayne and Mary Middleton Michel Hayne (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1946) Kate Harbes Becker, Paul Hamilton Hayne: Life and Letters (Belmont: Outline Company, 1951) Charles Duffy, (ed.), The Correspondence of Bayard Taylor and Paul Hamilton Hayne (Baton Rogue: Louisiana State University Press, 1945) Jay B. Hubbell (ed.), The Last Years of Henry Timrod, 1864-1867, including Letters of Timrod to Paul Hamilton Hayne and Letters about Timrod by William Gilmore Simms, John R. Thompson, John Greenleaf Whittier, and Others (Durham: Duke University Press, 1941) Samuel Albert Link, Paul H. Hayne (Nashville: Bell, 1901) Daniel Morley McKeithan (ed.), Selected Letters: John Garland James to Paul Hamilton Hayne and Mary Middleton Michel Hayne (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1946) F. V. N. Painter, Poets of the South; a Series of Biographical and Critical Studies with Typical Poems, Annotated (New York: American Book Co., 1903) Bibliography: Articles and Essays Charles Robert Anderson, "Charles Gayarré and Paul Hayne: The Last Literary Cavaliers," in David Kelly Jackson (ed.), American Studies in Honor of William Kenneth Boyd (Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press, 1940) Rayburn S. Moore, The Land of His Fathers: Paul Hamilton Hayne and South Carolina, 11 (2) South Carolina Review __ (1979) ______________, "A Great Poet and Original Genius": Hayne Champions Poe, 16 Southern Literary Rev. 105 (1983). Charles Duffy, A Southern Genteelist: Letters by Paul Hamilton Hayne to Julia C. R. Dorr, 50 (2) South Carolina Historical and Genealogical Magazine ___ (1951) "Paul Hamilton Hayne," in F. V. N. Painter, Poets of the South 48-64 (New York: American Book Co., 1903)(Freeport, New York: Books for Libraries Press, 1968) ______________, "Paul Hamilton Hayne," in Louis D. Rubin, Jr. (ed.), A Bibliographical Guide to the Study of Southern Literature 215-216 (Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University Press, 1969) "Paul Hamilton Hayne," in Samuel Albert Link, 1 Pioneers of Southern Literature 43-87 (Nashville, Tennessee & Dallas, Texas: Publishing House M.E. Church, South, Barber & Smith, Agents, 1899)(2 vols.) Research Resources Paul Hamilton
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