Discourse in commemoration of the landing of the pilgrims of Maryland, pronounced at Mt. St. Mary's College, May 10, 1847
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Miles was especially adapted to the work of dramatic criticism, for he was him self a practised writer and dramatist. At the age of twenty-four he had written a tragedy, Mohammed, which, against a hundred competitors, had gained the prize of one thousand dollars that was offered by Edwin Forrest, the great actor and philanthropist, for the best tragedy in five acts by an American writer. Five years later his tragedy of De Soto was pro duced by James E. Murdock, an eminent tragedian, and was performed in nearly all parts of the United States. After some years more of literary work in writing plays, novels, and poems, Miles accepted the Professorship of English Literature at the University of Mount St. Mary's, Maryland.
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George Henry Miles was an American poet, playwright, and teacher of English literature.
Background
George Henry Miles was born on July 31, 1824, in Baltimore, Maryland. On his father's side, he was of English ancestry, the great-grandson of Col. Thomas Miles, of the British army, who lies buried at Wallingford, Connecticut. The poet's father, William Miles, a native of New York, was a Baltimore merchant, at one time a commercial agent of the United States to Haiti. His mother, Sarah Mickle Miles, was the daughter of a Scotch settler in Baltimore, and his maternal grandmother, Elizabeth Etting Mickle, of Philadelphia, was of Hebrew ancestry.
Education
At the age of nine, Miles was sent to Mount Saint Mary's College, Emmitsburg, Maryland, and graduated summa cum laude in 1843. After graduation, he studied law with J. H. B. Latrobe in Baltimore, was admitted to the bar, and practiced for a time in partnership with Edwin Henry Webster.
Career
Having found the law uncongenial, Miles abandoned the practice and a few months after his marriage accepted appointment as a professor of English literature in Mount Saint Mary's College. There like his brother poet and coreligionist, Father Tabb, he combined teaching with literary work, with the exception of two years, 1863-65, until in 1867, he retired to give his whole time to writing. His residence was a pleasant country place, "Thornbrook, " about four miles from Emmitsburg, built for the poet and his wife by his father-in-law, who had an estate in the neighborhood. The literary aspirations that tempted Miles into academic life were encouraged by early successes. His first tragedy, Michael di Lando, Gonfalonier of Florence, was begun in September 1844. His novel The Truce of God appeared anonymously in the United States Catholic Magazine in 1847, and in 1850 and 1851 Loretto, or The Choice and The Governess appeared in the Catholic Mirror. In 1849 the actor Edwin Forrest offered a prize for the best original tragedy in five acts. Miles was awarded one thousand dollars for Mohammed, the Arabian Prophet. Forrest did not use the play but it was performed in 1851 at the Lyceum Theatre in New York. When in 1866 the Ave Maria announced a prize of one hundred dollars for the best poem on the Blessed Virgin, Miles competed and was again successful. His Mohammed, though published in 1850 in Boston and highly praised as poetry, was not successful as an acting play. With other dramas, however, Miles achieved a certain degree of success on the stage. His Hernando de Soto, written for J. E. Murdock in 1850, was produced acceptably at the Chestnut Street Theatre in Philadelphia for the first time on April 19, 1852. A comedy, Señor Valiente, written at the request of John T. Ford, owner of Ford's Theatre in Baltimore, was produced in Baltimore and New York in 1859, and on February 11, 1861, "Uncle Sam's Magic Lantern" was added to a production of Laura Keene's called The Seven Sisters which enjoyed a long run in Laura Keene's Theatre in New York City. Besides the three novels, already mentioned, Miles wrote numerous lyrics and narrative poems. Of this latter, the most ambitious is Christine, a romantic legend of the time of the Crusades. His "Inkerman, " published in October 1856 in Brownson's Quarterly Review, is a spirited description of a battle of the Crimean War. His lyrics are marked by the lightness of touch and notable facility in rime. In 1866, he published a collection of his verse under the title: Christine, A Troubadour's Song, and Other Poems. In 1870, in the Southern Review appeared unsigned Miles's most important critical work, a detailed study of Shakespeare's Hamlet. A projected series of similar critiques on other Shakespearean tragedies remained incomplete. He died at "Thornbrook, " after a lingering illness, of nephritis, and was buried in the churchyard of Mount Saint Mary's at Emmitsburg.
Achievements
George Henry Miles won some renown in the mid-nineteenth century as a poet, novelist, and dramatist. In 1859, his drama "Mohammed" won the $1, 000 prize offered by Edwin Forrest for best play by an American author.
