Excerpt from Henry Timrod, Man and Poet: A Critical Study To have been his birthplace, said Longfellow, is a distinct honor. Here he received his early training and his prepartion for college in private schools. One of his schoolmates was the eminent philologist, Dr. Basil L. Gildersleeve, now of the Johns Hopkins University, himself a gifted man of letters. His deskmate and life long friend was Paul Hamilton Hayne, who was destined to become an equally distinguished and more fortunate brother poet. I well remember, says ...
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Excerpt from Henry Timrod, Man and Poet: A Critical Study To have been his birthplace, said Longfellow, is a distinct honor. Here he received his early training and his prepartion for college in private schools. One of his schoolmates was the eminent philologist, Dr. Basil L. Gildersleeve, now of the Johns Hopkins University, himself a gifted man of letters. His deskmate and life long friend was Paul Hamilton Hayne, who was destined to become an equally distinguished and more fortunate brother poet. I well remember, says Hayne, the exultation with which he showed me one morning his earliest consecutive attempt at verse-making. Our down east schoolmaster, however, could boast of no turn for sentiment, and having remarked us hobnobbing, meanly assaulted us in the rear, effectually quenching, for the time, all aesthetic enthusiasm. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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