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James Abraham Hillhouse was born on September 26, 1789 in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. He was the eldest child of James and Rebecca (Woolsey) Hillhouse.
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James Abraham Hillhouse was born on September 26, 1789 in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. He was the eldest child of James and Rebecca (Woolsey) Hillhouse.
Hillhouse entered Yale at the age of thirteen, but he withdrew before the end of his freshman year, and eventually received his Bachelor of Arts degree with the class of 1808. Upon taking his master's degree in 1811, he delivered an oration on "The Education of a Poet. "
In 1812, at the anniversary of the Phi Beta Kappa Society, Hillhouse read "The Judgment, " a vision-poem describing the day of final retribution. Though highly praised by contemporary critics, it is labored in imagery and conventional in conception. His plans for a business career being interrupted by the War of 1812, he retired from Boston, where he had resided for three years after his graduation.
Hillhouse returned to New Haven. At this period he wrote two verse dramas, Demetria and Percy's Masque. In 1819 he visited England. In London he first published Percy's Masque (1819), a five-act drama which owes its inspiration to Bishop Percy's ballad, "The Hermit of Warkworth. "
Returning to America in 1820, Hillhouse engaged in business as a hardware merchant in New York City. In 1823 he removed to New Haven, where he built a house on Pierson-Sage Square. Here he spent the remainder of his life in study and literary pursuits.
In 1824, he wrote Hadad (1825), a blank-verse drama in five acts based upon the Biblical narrative of Absalom's rebellion. His introduction to this piece informs the reader that "The peculiar feature of this poem is ascribable to the Book of Tobit, where the supernatural throws a mystical wildness over a touching narrative of human interests. " This, the longest and most pretentious of his dramatic poems, received the greatest praise from his contemporaries. It is, however, less important than Demetria, a romantic tragedy of intrigue, written in 1813 and published in 1839.
For a man of his scholarly inclinations and apparent leisure his literary output was extremely small. Almost all his writings are contained in two slender volumes: Dramas, Discourses, and Other Pieces (1839).
He died on January 4, 1841.
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In 1822, Hillhouse married Cornelia Lawrence, the eldest daughter of Isaac Lawrence, a wealthy merchant of New York.