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The last night of Pompeii: a poem: and Lays and legends
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The Autobiography of Jane Fairfield: Embracing a Few Select Poems by Sumner Lincoln Fairfield
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(Excerpt from Lays of Melpomene
Thou hast breathed music ...)
Excerpt from Lays of Melpomene
Thou hast breathed music o'er my sinking mind And I have sought thee, when the world unkind Crushed my fond hopes, in Love's secluded bower. And found thy chords possessed a magic power O'er the dark workings of the soul -woes bind The Memory unto joys life leaves behind.
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Abaddon, the spirit of destruction: And other poems.
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Sumner Lincoln Fairfield was born at Warwick, Massachusetts, the son of Dr. Abner Fairfield and Lucy Lincoln. Upon the death of his father, Sumner went to live with his grandfather, Seth Lincoln, Jr. , in Western (now Warren), Massachusetts. Consequently, his mother left her paternal home, and placed Sumner in the grammar school at Hadley, Massachusetts.
Education
During 1818-20 he was a student at Brown University, but left because he lacked money, and taught in Georgia (1821) and in South Carolina (1822).
Dissatisfied with that he returned to Philadelphia for the years 1828-29, became head master at Newton Academy near Philadelphia, but left because of a tragic occurrence.
Career
In December 1825 he sailed for Europe.
He proceeded with his bride to Elizabethtown, where all their household effects were seized for debt.
Stalked by misfortune, he moved to New York, then to Boston, where he acted in Home’s tragedy Douglas.
Again lacking money, the poet in 1827 was forced to act on the New York stage, but soon secured a teaching position near Charlestown, Virginia.
He could never face disagreeable situations.
In 1830 he was teaching in New York.
Fairfield finished his masterpiece, The Last Night of Pompeii, in 1831, and had it printed in New York in 1832, two years before Bulwer- Lytton’s The Last Days of Pompeii.
He claimed that he had sent Bulwer a copy of the poem which was never acknowledged, and when the novel appeared, charged him with plagiarism.
Fairfield’s assertions are partly true.
Doubtless Bulwer made use of the poem, but merely as a “source. ”
He continued to edit it until 1838, save for the suspension of publication in 1837 because of his failing health.
The second never appeared.
His editorial policy was truth, no matter whom it affected.
He had few friends, and his poetry, which strikes at times a high note in early American literature, is now little known.