Paul Hamilton Hayne
Paul Hamilton Hayne (born January 1, 1831 in Charleston (South Carolina) , † July 6, 1886 in Grovetown (Georgia) ) was an American poet.
Hayne studied law, but later threw himself into journalism. In 1855 he published a small volume of poems, and this was soon followed by his work Avolio, a legend of the island of Cos .
After the Civil War , in which he only briefly served as a member of the staff of Governor Pickens of South Carolina , he published an edition of the poems of his southern comrade Henry Timrod and then gave two other collections of his poetry: Legends and lyrics (1872) and Mountain of lovers, with poems of nature and tradition (1876), out. The latter he mainly dealt with myths from the European Middle Ages. Haynes numerous war songs can be found in Mason's compilation The southern poems of the war (Baltimore 1869). An edition of his Complete poems appeared in 1883.
literature
Works
- Poems of Paul Hamilton Hayne . Complete ed. Boston, Mass .: D. Lothrop, 1882. Microfilm edition Ann Arbor, Michigan.
- Daniel M. MacKeithan (Ed.): A collection of Hayne letters . Westport, Conn .: Greenwood Press, 1970.
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- Kate Harbes Becker: Paul Hamilton Hayne: life and letters . Belmont, NC: Outline, 1951.
- Jack DeBellis: Sidney Lanier, Henry Timrod, and Paul Hamilton Hayne; A reference guide . Boston, Mass .: Hall, 1978.
- Rayburn S. Moore (Ed.): A man of letters in the nineteenth-century South: Selected letters Paul Hamilton Hayne . Baton Rouge et al. a .: Louisiana State Univ.Pr., 1982. ISBN 0-8071-1025-6 .
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| SURNAME | Hayne, Paul Hamilton |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 1, 1831 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Charleston, South Carolina |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 6, 1886 |
| Place of death | Grovetown, Georgia |