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Avolio - a Legend of the Island of Cos: with Poems, Lyrical, Miscellaneous, and Dramatic
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Should colder Censors shut the gate of praise, Where, when his golden hopes have ceased to burn, And high Ambitions one by one depart.
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Then came the disasters of the civil war. Mr. Hayne, whose health, delicate from his childhood, would not allow him to take field service, became an aid on Governor Pickens's staff. During the bom bardment of his native city, his beautiful home was burned to the ground, and his large, handsome library utterly lost. Even the few valuables, such as the old family silver, which he succeeded in securing and removing to a bank in Columbia for safe-keeping, were swept away in the famous march to the sea and there was nothing left for the homeless and ruined man but exile among the Pineo Barrens of Georgia. There he established himself, in utter seclusion, In a veritable cottage (or rather shanty, dignified at first as Hayne's behind whose screens of vines, among the peaches, melons, and straw berries of his own raising, he has fought the fight of life with uncom plaining bravery, and persisted in being happy.
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Paul Hamilton Hayne was an American poet, critic and editor. He was the founder of Charleston Literary Center of the South, and one of the best-known poets of the Confederate cause.
Background
Paul Hamilton Hayne was born on January 1, 1830 in Charleston, South Carolina, where his ancestors had been prominent for a century. He was the only child of Lieutenant Paul Hamilton and Emily (McElhenny) Hayne. His father dying early, the boy grew up under the joint care of his mother, from whom he inherited poetic ability, and his distinguished uncle, Robert Young Hayne, whose home became his own.
Education
After preparing at Mr. Coates's school, where began his lifelong intimacy with Henry Timrod, at twenty Hayne graduated from Charleston College and turned to the law, with its prospect of political preferment. He had already felt "the thirst for beauty's balmy fount, " however, and soon abandoned his practice in favor of a literary career.
Career
During a decade of apprenticeship Hayne alternated between journalism and poetry, contributing to the Southern Literary Messenger and the Charleston Evening News, holding editorial positions with the short-lived Southern Literary Gazette and Washington Spectator, and publishing three volumes: Poems (1855), Sonnets and Other Poems (1857), and Avolio, a Legend of the Island of Cos (1860). His verses, though occasionally imitative, showed an idyllic delicacy and deep-rooted love of nature which won them immediate appreciation, Holmes, Bryant, Longfellow, and other poets extending generous hands of fellowship.
Meanwhile he drifted naturally into that company of brilliant young men who, in the fifties, under Simms's leadership, were to make Charleston the literary center of the South. The most important outcome of their gatherings at John Russell's bookstore was the launching, April 1, 1857, of Russell's Magazine, with Hayne and W. B. Carlisle as editors. Despite the magazine's merit it lasted only three years, its Southern policy arresting circulation in the North without increasing it at home. Hayne subsequently referred to his editorship--he did all of the editorial work--as "one of the most difficult, exacting, and thankless positions imaginable, " yet from it he gained invaluable practice and added reputation.
Then, just when success seemed assured, came the Civil War. Unfit for field service, Hayne became an aide on Governor Pickens' staff. His physical frailty soon compelled his retirement, and he thenceforth sought outlet in patriotic verses which, if not equal to Timrod's in fire and artistry, were popular and often meritorious. Conspicuous in his martial pieces is his affectionate pride in his state and city, foreshadowing the tender reminiscences of "Ante-Bellum Charleston" which he later contributed to the Southern Bivouac: he was as truly the poet of Charleston as Holmes was of Boston. Yet when, after the war, his home and library having been burned in the bombardment, his family silver stolen by Sherman's men, and his competency gone, he determined to start afresh, it was not unnatural that he should turn from the wreckage of his beloved "Queen City of the Sea" to an exile hardly less tragic.
The closing years of the war had inured him to hardship, however, and in this rough "shanty of uncouth ugliness" the poet lived out his days, cultivating his flowers and vegetables, poring over a few favorite books, grinding out quantities of prose hackwork, and writing his best verse, with more which was not his best, while standing at the carpenter's workbench which served him for desk.
Although denied his wish to visit England and the home of his ancestors in Shropshire, he made one memorable post-war journey to New England to see his fellow poets there. In 1872 appeared Legends and Lyrics, perhaps his best single volume, containing, as he wrote his friend Charles Warren Stoddard, "the only two narrative poems I really value. " The next year he edited the poems of his friend Timrod, prefacing them with a memoir as penetrating as it was sympathetic and sincere; then followed The Mountain of the Lovers (1875), Lives of Robert Young Hayne and Hugh Swinton Legar (1878), and an unpublished life of Simms.
In 1882 Lothrop issued an illustrated edition of his collected Poems, his last volume except the little Confederate memorial, The Broken Battalions (1885); but despite his now rapidly failing health he wrote on, contributing prose articles to the magazines, making occasional addresses, and leaving, besides an unfinished novel, enough verses-some of them among his finest, to fill a fair-sized book.
Hayne was the threnodist of the antebellum régime, whose ideals he interpreted in his poetry and illustrated in his character. Yet, if sectional, he was not partisan, never bitter, paying sincere tribute after the Civil War to numerous Northern men of letters and laboring effectively to foster a national spirit.
Views
Sometimes Hayne's verse echoed the English poets, especially Tennyson, Keats, William Morris; sometimes it was marred by mid-century sentimentalism and romantic prettiness; but at its best, when he sang from his heart of the trees, the birds, the skies which he knew, it was at once individual and Southern. Lacking in depth of philosophy and thought, in compression, in imaginative reach, it was nevertheless strong in its dignity, calmness, spiritual sweetness, color, and weighing of words; he was ever the gentle lover of what he held beautiful and true, the almost commonplace subjects through which he sought "to come near and to rouse the great heart of humanity. "
Quotations:
To Mrs. Preston Hayne wrote: "By my literary craft I will win my bread and water; by my poems I will live or I will starve, " and more than any American author of his time he depended upon poetry alone for his income.
Personality
Hayne's somewhat feminine fancy and delicacy of feeling made him sensuously responsive to the picturesqueness of Southern forest and landscape; above all he was the poet of the pines, which he celebrated as enthusiastically as Lanier did the marshes. His craftsmanship improved steadily in grace and melody, although the spirit of his work remained essentially the same.
If ever poet lived on sixpence a day and earned it, it was Hayne in the lean years after the Confederacy fell, but his courage never faltered, his ideals never dimmed.
He deserves to be better known, not simply for his poetry, but as a delightful letter writer and raconteur, an outspoken critic, and a high-hearted, naïve, wholly charming gentleman--"the last literary Cavalier, " as Maurice Thompson aptly called him in an essay which, pointing out his strong facial resemblance to Robert Louis Stevenson, contains the best description of his physical appearance.
Connections
In 1852 Hayne married Mary Middleton Michel of Charleston, the daughter of a French surgeon who had won distinction under Bonaparte. With his wife and son he later moved to Groveton, near Augusta, Georgia, where he owned a few acres of poor pine land, and himself built Copse Hill, "a little apology for a dwelling, " which he furnished with "three mattresses and a cot" and stocked with "a box of hardtack, two sides of bacon, and four-score smoked herring. " In time chairs, tables, and shelves, made of packingboxes, were added, Mrs. Hayne supplying the decoration by papering walls and furniture with pictures cut from magazines.