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The Wreath Of Eglantine: And Other Poems
Daniel Bedinger Lucas, Virginia Lucas
Kelly, Piet & Company, 1869
Poetry; American; General; Literary Criticism / Poetry; Poetry / American / General
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The manifold romantic incidents of blockade running, the bleak but stirring experiences of prison-escape and Canadian exile, the rude emer gence of primitive instincts of law and right amid the trebly fratricidal anarchy of the western border states, were all familiar to the poet. From them he has taken both the setting and the atmosphere of his three plays; and in his presenta tion of the types and facts involved he shows often an impartiality of political judgment rather surprising in so ardent an adherent.
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The Maid Of Northumberland: A Dramatic Poem
Daniel Bedinger Lucas
Putnam, 1879
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Daniel Bedinger Lucas was an American jurist, author, and "poet of the Shenandoah Valley". He served at West Virginia Legislature from 1884 to 1887.
Background
Daniel Bedinger Lucas was born on March 16, 1836 at "Rion Hall, " near Charlestown, Virginia (now West Virginia). He came of a family of distinguished soldiers. The first Lucas of which there is record, Robert, came from England and settled in Pennsylvania in 1679. Edward, a son of this Robert, moved on to the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia and settled near Shepherdstown; his grandson, William, built on one of the most beautiful spots of the Valley, "Rion Hall, " where his son Daniel was born. The boy's mother, Virginia Bedinger, was a daughter of Daniel Bedinger, collector of the Port of Norfolk during John Adams' administration, a man of considerable poetic talent. Because of an injury to his spine during infancy, which kept him from more active amusements, Daniel spent much time in his father's excellent library, forming a taste for good literature and a desire to write poetry.
Education
Lucas was educated under private tutors in the home of Braxton Davenport at Charlestown. Later he went to the University of Virginia where he excelled in oratory. Completing his course in 1854, he attended the law school of Judge John W. Brockenbrough at Lexington, Virginia, where he graduated with honors. In 1859 he began practising law at Charles Town but moved the next year to Richmond.
Career
At the beginning of the Civil War Lucas joined the staff of General Henry A. Wise and took part in the Kanawha Valley Campaign; physical disability kept him from active service during the last years of the war. Toward the end of the war he courageously ran the blockade to help defend his classmate, John Yates Beall, accused in New York of being a spy. Unable to return south he stayed in Canada where upon the surrender of Lee he published his best-known poem, The Land Where We Were Dreaming. The war over he returned to Charles Town. Barred from the practice of his profession by the test oath, he turned to literature and became co-editor of the Baltimore Southern Metropolis, in which magazine he published some of his poems.
In 1871 Lucas resumed his law practice. He was Democratic presidential elector in 1872 and 1876; elector at large on the Cleveland ticket in 1884; was elected to the legislature in 1884 and 1886; and was a member of the supreme court of appeals from 1889 to 1893, serving as president from November 8, 1890, to January 1, 1893.
Because of ill health he was comparatively inactive during the last ten years of his life, spending the time quietly on his estate. Lucas' volumes of poetry include, besides the first, The Wreath of Eglantine (1869), written in collaboration with his sister, and Ballads and Madrigals (1884). A collected edition of his poems, edited by Charles W. Kent and Lucas' daughter, was published in Boston in 1913 under the title The Land Where We Were Dreaming. His plays, three in number, are in blank verse. The Maid of Northumberland was published in 1884. Hildebrand and Kate McDonald were published posthumously in the Dramatic Works of Daniel Bedinger Lucas (1913). All three have to do with the Civil War in America, The Maid of Northumberland being perhaps the first play written in America on this subject. In two of the plays the author makes use of his blockade-running experiences at the time of the John Yates Beall trial. They are full of Shakespearian echoes, contain some excellent speeches, and some good descriptions of nature, but on the whole, Lucas the dramatist is inferior to Lucas the writer of lyrics. His poems are of different kinds--nature poems, love poems, narrative poems, poems of sentiment, poems dealing with the South and the war, and poems written for special occasions. They show the influence of Keats, Tennyson, and Poe. His prose works include The Memoir of John Yates Beall (1865), and Nicaragua, War of the Filibusters (1896). At the time of his death he was writing a life of Lincoln.
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Politics
Lucas was a stanch Democrat of the Jeffersonian school. He strongly opposed Johnson N. Camden, whom he considered an ally of Standard Oil.
Connections
Lucas was married to Lena Tucker Brooke, grand-niece of Governor Robert Brooke of Virginia. His only child, Virginia, like her father, was a contributor to several magazines.