Thomas Holley Chivers

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Thomas Holley Chivers

Thomas Holley Chivers (born October 18, 1809 on the Digby Manor plantation near Washington , Georgia , † December 18, 1858 in Decatur , Georgia) was an American poet. He gained particular fame through the biography Life of Poe by the writer Edgar Allan Poe .

Works (selection)

Poems

  • Nacoochee (1837)
  • The lost Pleiad and other poems (1845)
  • Eonchs of ruby, a gift of love (1851)
  • Virginalia (1853, also under the title Songs of my summer nights )

drama

  • Conrad and Eudora (1934)

literature

  • Charles Henry Watts: Thomas Holley Chivers, his literary career and his poetry , Athens, University of Georgia Press, 1956

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personal data
SURNAME Chivers, Thomas Holley
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American poet
DATE OF BIRTH October 18, 1809
PLACE OF BIRTH Digby Manor plantation near Washington , Georgia
DATE OF DEATH December 18, 1858
Place of death Decatur , Georgia