Poems
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1855.
First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 7.25" x 4.75", viii, 108 pp, with 8-page publisher's catalogue tipped in at he rear. A very good copy with a small chip to cloth at head of spine, newspaper clipping reprinting one of the author's poems affixed to rear pastedown. Small bookplate of poet and critic Edmund Clarence Stedman on front pastedown; his signature on the front free endpaper. Paul Hamilton Hayne (1830-1886) was a native of Charleston, South Carolina who was raised in the home of his uncle, United States Senator Robert Y. Hayne. After briefly practicing law, Hayne dedicated himself to literary pursuits, contributing to the Charleston Literary Gazette, the Southern Literary Messenger, Southern Bivouac, and other important southern publications of the period. This book, his first published volume of poetry, garnered him national attention. The Wikipedia article on Hayne says that his "sonnets are considered his best work. He was appreciated even in the north and became known as an unofficial poet laureate of the South, and at least one scholar referred to him as a 'Poet of the Confederacy.'"
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