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Poetry is a literary form that uses aest...)
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Poetry is a literary form that uses aesthetic and rhythmic qualities of language (e.g. phonaesthetics, sound symbolism, and metre) to enhance the prosaic ostensible meaning, or generate an alternative meaning. Poetry uses numerous devices such as assonance, alliteration, onomatopoeia and rhythm are sometimes used to achieve musical or incantatory effects. Poetry's long history dates back to prehistorical times ehen hunting poetry was created in Africa.
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Poetry as an art form predates written text, with the earliest poetry having been recited or sung, and employed as a way of remembering oral history. The oldest examples of epic poetry include the Epic of Gilgamesh from Bablylon and the Greek epics The Iliad and The Odyssey, and the Indian Sanskrit epics of Ramayana and Mahabharata. The longest epic poems in history were the Mahabharata and the Tibetan Epic of King Gesar. Aristotle's Poetics considered that there were three genres of poetry—the epic, the comic, and the tragic. Later aestheticians identified: epic poetry, lyric poetry, and dramatic poetry. One of the most popular form since the Late Middle Ages, is the sonnet, which by the 13th century had become standardized as fourteen lines following a set rhyme scheme. The form had crystallized further by the 14th century and the Italian Renaissance, under the guidance of Petrarch.
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The Collected Poems of Henry Timrod: A Variorum Edition
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An important figure in the literature of the antebellum South, Henry Timrod was a member of the literary group of Charleston, South Carolina. This book is a variorum edition of Timrod's major poetry, arranged as nearly as possible in chronological order. A "Notes and Variants" section provides detailed information in a set pattern: the record of publication of each poem, explanatory comments, variant readings, and occasionally a commentary by an earlier critic. The editors have included a biographical and critical Introduction.
The Southern Poets: Selected Poems Of Sidney Lanier, Henry Timrod, Paul Hamilton Hayne...
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The Southern Poets: Selected Poems Of Sidney Lanier, Henry Timrod, Paul Hamilton Hayne; Issue 241 Of Maynard's English Classic Series
Sidney Lanier, Henry Timrod, Paul Hamilton Hayne
Julian Willis Abernethy
Maynard, Merrill, & Co., 1904
Literary Criticism; American; General; American literature; American poetry; Literary Criticism / American / General; Poetry / American / General
A Little Book: To Obtain Means for Placing a Memorial Stone Upon the Grave of the Poet (Classic Reprint)
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The author of the pieces which make up this little volume Prof. WM J. Rivers, desires us to add for him. That the writing of verses has been with him, as with many of us, an occasional pastime; and that he hopes the lack of merit in those here given will be no bar to your generous consideration of the good object which their publication is designed to accomplish.
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Timrod was born on December 8, 1829 in Charleston, South Carolina.
His paternal grandfather, Heinrich Dimroth, emigrated to Charleston from Germany in 1765, and, after amassing property as a merchant tailor, set up as a planter. His third wife was his Scotch-Irish housekeeper, Susannah Hargan; their son, William Henry, a bookbinder of uncommon character and intellect who achieved local recognition through his literary abilities, died in 1838 as a consequence of his services in the Seminole War, leaving his family in straitened circumstances. From him Henry Timrod inherited poetic temperament and a vein of impracticality; from his English-Swiss mother, Thyrza Prince, to whom "a walk in the woods was food and drink, and the sight of a green field was joy inexpressible, " the sensitive city-born child derived his deeply seated love of nature.
Education
Timrod studied at the University of Georgia, but, forced by illness to end his formal studies, returned to Charleston.
Career
He took a position with a lawyer and planned to begin a law practice.
From 1848 to 1853 he submitted a number of poems to The Southern Literary Messenger, under the pen name Aglaus, which attracted some attention to his abilities. Encouraged, he left the field of law for writing and tutoring.
In 1856, he accepted a post as a teacher at the plantation of Col. William Henry Cannon in the area that would later become Florence, South Carolina. The single room school building, still preserved in Timrod Park, located in Florence, was built to provide for the education of the plantation children. Among his students was the young lady who would later become his bride and the object of a number of his poems—the fair Saxon Katie Godwin.
While teaching and tutoring he continued also to publish his poems in literary magazines. In 1860, he published a small book, which, although a commercial failure, increased his fame. The best known poem from the book was A Vision of Poesy, written in direct imitation of the English Romantic lyrics that were rather popular in America at the time. In contrast to the rather complicated allusions and mythological references common of English lyrics, Timrod paints A Vision of Poesy in simple strokes, keeping his lines distinctly clean and simple.
With the outbreak of war, Henry returned to Charleston, soon publishing his best known poems, which drew many young men to enlist in the service of the Confederacy. His best known poems of the time are Ethnogenesis, A Call to Arms, Carolina, and Katie. He was a frequent contributor of poems to Russell's Magazine and to The Southern Literary Messenger.
Timrod soon followed those he had inspired into the military, but illness prevented much service, and he was sent home. After the bloody Battle of Shiloh, he tried again to live the camp life as a western war correspondent for the Charleston Mercury, but this too was short lived as he was not strong enough for the rugged task.
He returned from the front and settled in Columbia, South Carolina to become associate editor of the newspaper, The South Carolinian. In February 1864, he married his beloved Katie, and soon had a son, Willie, born on Christmas Eve. During the occupation by General Sherman's troops in February 1865, he was forced into hiding, and the newspaper office was destroyed.
The aftermath of war brought poverty to his family and to him, increasing illness. He took a post as correspondent for a new newspaper based in Charleston, The Carolinian, but after several months of work, he was never paid, and the paper folded. He finally succumbed to consumption Sunday morning, October 7, 1867, and was laid to rest in the churchyard at Trinity Episcopal Church in Columbia next to his son.
Quotations:
“Ah me! why may not love and life be one?”
“Each has its lesson; for our dreams in sooth, come they in shape of demons, gods, or elves, are allegories with deep hearts of truth that tell us solemn secrets of ourselves. ”
"Out in the lonely woods the jasmine burns Its fragrant lamps, and turns Into a royal court with green festoons The banks of dark lagoons.
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In February 1864 he married his beloved Katie, and they soon had a son, Willie, born on Christmas Eve.