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Garnett was born on April 24, 1840 in Aldie, Virginia, son of Theodore Stanford Garnett and his wife Florentina Isidora Moreno. His father was a civil engineer.
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Garnett was born on April 24, 1840 in Aldie, Virginia, son of Theodore Stanford Garnett and his wife Florentina Isidora Moreno. His father was a civil engineer.
Following a rather nomadic childhood, Garnett spent four years at the Episcopal High School, near Alexandria, and then entered the University of Virginia where he further proved his brilliance as a student, took his master's degree at nineteen, and engaged actively in extracurricular pursuits: among other things he assisted in organizing there what is said to have been the first Young Men's Christian Association incorporated within the precincts of a college.
After teaching for a year Garnett returned to the University, served in the "Southern Guard" composed of students, and in July 1861 enlisted as a private in the Rockbridge Artillery of "Stonewall" Jackson's brigade. When paroled at Appomatox, after fighting throughout the war, he was captain of artillery and ordnance officer of Grimes's (formerly Rodes's) division, II Corps, Army of Northern Virginia. He resumed his teaching after the war, and in 1869-1870 spent a year at the Universities of Berlin and Leipzig studying classical philology. On his return he was chosen principal of St. John's College, Annapolis, Maryland, and held this office, with the professorship of history and of English language and literature, until 1880, when he resigned. For two years he conducted a school of his own at Ellicott City, Maryland. In 1882 he was appointed professor of English language and literature in the University of Virginia and continued as such until 1893, when, the English teaching being divided between two chairs, he was made professor of English language alone. He resigned this position three years later, moved to Baltimore, and, after filling for one session a vacancy in the chair of English literature at the Woman's (now Goucher) College, devoted himself to private teaching, writing, and the affairs of the Protestant Episcopal Church, in which he had long been zealously interested. He was an accurate, painstaking, and erudite scholar, though the amount of his published work was not large. He edited Selections in English Prose from Elizabeth to Victoria (1891), Hayne's Speech, to which Webster Replied (1894), Macbeth (1897), and Burke's Speech on Conciliation with America (1901); wrote most of the two-volume history, The University of Virginia (1904), prepared under his supervision; and contributed occasional articles or reviews to magazines and philological journals. His most important works were his metrical translations from the Anglo-Saxon, Beowulf (1882) and Elene; Judith; Athelstan, or the Fight at Brunanburh; and Byrhtnoth, or the Fight at Maldon: Anglo-Saxon Poems (1889). His Beowulf, a strictly literal version, was the first American translation of the poem and was accorded a flattering reception. It was most favorably reviewed by the German critics; was commended by English and American authorities; and was cordially welcomed by American schools and colleges, passing through four editions. As a teacher he was less successful. He failed to fire the imaginations of his students, and his own rich scholarship, culture, and exacting ideals did not serve to make him indulgent of the limitations of their knowledge. During his later years he prepared biographical sketches of a number of his distinguished relatives, notably his grandfather, James Mercer Garnett, and his first cousin, M. R. H. Garnett, and in 1910 published a Genealogy of the Mercer-Garnett Family. Garnett died on February 18, 1916.
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Garnett married, April 19, 1871, Kate Huntington Noland, of Middleburg, Loudoun County, Virginia.
