2020-07 2 sessions
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HAYNE, Paul Hamilton (1830-1886) was a nineteenth-century Southern American poet, critic, and editor. Hayne is noteworthy for his friendship with fellow Southern poet Henry Timrod, whom Hayne helped with both his life and his career. Timrod was frail and ill throughout his life with tuberculosis, and Hayne helped to provide financially for Timrod and his wife and young son. Most importantly for literature and history, Hayne preserved Timrod's poems and edited them into a collection that was published in 1872 and that presented such historically important poems as "The Cotton Boll" and "Ode Sung On The Occasion Of Decorating The Graves Of The Confederate Dead". Timrod now has the greater reputation as a poet, while Hayne is known more for his role as an editor and literary critic than as a poet. Timrod has continued to influence other modern Southern writers, including the poet Allen Tate, whose most famous poem, "Ode to the Confederate Dead", owes a great deal to Timrod's similarly titled poem. Autograph Letter Signed "Paul Hamilton Hayne" 1pp. octavo, January 7, 1882, Copse Hill, Georgia, and reads in most part: "...It gives me pleasure to comply with your request for 'an autograph attached to a few lines' Ah; thus forevermore, till Time shall cease, / Man's soul, & Nature's --- each a separate sphere/ Revolves, the one in discord, one in peace --/ And who shall make the solemn mystery clear?" Fine condition. $800-$1,200
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