The Legend of the Rocks, and Other Poems (Classic Reprint)
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Bends from his car with laughing eyes; And, warbling down the mountain's side, The torrent sends its rapid tide, Till rocky fragments check its path; Awhile it foams in seeming wrath.
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Earl Rupert, and Other Tales and Poems (Classic Reprint)
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It was about this period that an accident occurred which has thrown a cloud over his whole life, and in a measure shut him out from the intimate communion of his fellow-beings. While descending a flight Of stairs, with a little playmate in his arms, his foot slipped in his fall he caught at a heavy piece of fur mitare which fell upon his head, crushing and mangling it so severely, that for several hours no sign of life appeared, and many weeks elapsed before consciousness returned. The tym panum of the ear being injured, his hearing was irrevocably lost, and as a natural consequence, the faculty Of speech gra~ dually declined.
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An Ode on the Proclamation of President Jackson (Classic Reprint)
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At about twelve years of age N ack wrote a tragedy; this he destroyed; but his mind at that time was in one constant dramatic effort; it was an expedient to which he resorted to get rid of the deep wretchedness he felt at being, as it were, left alone with himself to contemplate his misfortune in losing his hearing and speech. In the regions of imagination he was soothed, and warmed with all the dreamy delights to be found in such fairy land.
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The Immortal: A Dramatic Romance; And Other Poems (Classic Reprint)
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Tm: Drama of the Immortal was written at the age of eighteen. The author's more mature judgment has suggested considerable abridgment; and among the scenes suppressed, were some that perhaps might have been useful in developing the object and tendency of the work. It therefore may be as well to supply their place by a brief introduction.
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James M. Nack was born on January 4, 1809 in New York City, New York, United States. As a small boy he imitated preachers he heard at church and made up couplets in the style of hymns. In his eighth year, while carrying a playmate, he fell on a stairway and dragged a heavy fire screen down upon his head. When he recovered consciousness, after some weeks, his hearing was gone. Through his inability to hear his own voice, gradually his power of speech decayed also, though he could make himself understood to those who were closest to him.
Education
Cut off from educational advantages through financial reverses which came to his father, he was taught by a sister in her spare time, and was able to read at four and to write verses before he was nine. From August 1818 to December 1823 he was an inmate of the New York Deaf and Dumb Asylum, where he showed ability in grammar and arithmetic.
Career
His passion for poetic composition never waned, however, and it became the means by which he rose above the poverty and misery of his lonely life. He wrote a tragedy at twelve and another at fifteen, "on his knees, " in a cold garret, without a table, with the stump of a pen; both of which productions, like many other early ones, he destroyed. But a poem of his, "The Blue-Eyed Maid, " attracted the notice of Abraham Asten, clerk of the city and county of New York. Asten first secured the boy employment with a lawyer, a man of taste possessing a fine library, but eventually took him into his own office as an assistant, and introduced him to the literati of the city. With the publication of his first volume, The Legend of the Rocks and Other Poems (1827), Nack became the literary sensation of the day. The New York Critic praised the music of a mind cut off from all sounds; another periodical hailed him as an intellectual wonder and a second Byron; Samuel Knapp pronounced him the most promising young writer he had ever met, and became his friend. In 1833, he published his Ode on the Proclamation of President Jackson; in 1839, Earl Rupert and Other Tales and Poems, including some prose selections and dedicated to Washington Irving; in 1850, The Immortal, a Dramatic Romance, with dedicatory verses to Dickens, reprinted under the title, Poems, in 1852; and The Romance of the Ring and Other Poems, with a portrait and facsimile signature, in 1859. Many of the early poems reappeared in subsequent volumes.
Throughout his career he saw his poems quoted and reprinted; but he died regretting he had not done more as a poet.
Haunted by the material of Scott and the landscape of Byron, and stirred by a passion for adventure that he must satisfy second-hand, he never rose to the level of the poets he imitated. He wrote for a period, and his poems have been buried with the obvious sentimentality of that day.
Achievements
His achievement in becoming a poet in spite of physical handicaps was a greater one than his poetry itself.
