october december american doctor turned poet state georgia best known friendship controversial defense poet death born wealthy georgia family interested poetry young age wife separated received medical degree focused energy publishing medicine addition submitting poems magazines journals published volumes poetry including plays showed interest young poet encouraged work spent years life defending reputation died thought heavily influenced poetry died georgia literary theorist believed divine inspiration encouraged development distinctive american style literature especially promoted young writers poems known religious overtones emphasis death lost loved ones built mild reputation day soon forgotten death life work born october father plantation near washington georgia age seven introduced poetry read rose married year old cousin soon separated alleged albert wife poet uncle prior birth daughter suggested separation abuse rumors originated uncle incident compared lord wife left went receive degree medicine kentucky thesis titled intermittent west north united_states publishing poetry places returning georgia published path sorrow collection poetry based events troubled marriage years later published death fictionalized account actual murder case nicknamed kentucky tragedy work later renamed november married springfield massachusetts couple children died young wife legally divorced suit dismissed court georgia law marriage absence years contributed newspapers magazines poetry turned publication southern literary messenger march suggested return medicine box poems printed unsigned commentary presented editorial referring verses submitted lost self published new_york initial success sales rapidly declined self published poems volume dedicated mother died year later relationship best known association fact relationship work rediscovered 20th century interaction meet new_york friends willing lifetime financial support moved south appreciated ability wrote seriously work ought thousand dollars year richly worth graham greatly opinion paid intellectual need expect establish magazine wrote referring plans begin stylus concerned reputation severe literary critic people fact hoping lend wealth financial stylus possibly serve editor early planning stages considered proposal able accept death year old daughter week later written second series published december said productions affect wild dream strange images sweet song worst nonsense horrible indefinite charm sentiment melody sure meaning words meaning finest musical airs effect similar figures speech metaphor run mad grammar fine individual passages found poems poet whatsoever corresponded letters finally met june july visited sick wife virginia especially difficult period struggle tuberculosis later recalled voice like soft tones music sleeping strings awakened laden sweet mountains lord september dangers alcohol said god given talents drink man god nature endowed abilities moved poisonous steam hell fire said wife virginia sick carry home night excess attested pamphlet titled disagreed aesthetics small booklet presents series dialogues poet visionary intent capturing mystic realms experience language poet merely superior wise ultimately leads truth death death accused raven work critics suggested mediocre poems poem collection homage names like refrain forever july published essay called origin raven pseudonym claiming inspired use word raven suggested georgia citizen learned write poetry literary scholar wrote anybody read influenced took isn clear continued praise admire albeit careful point literary debt present picture real face sustained attacks reputation reverend poet literary correction took form memoir titled published said incompetent edit works totally unconscious duties man sets owe dead continued defend reputation end life final years death living wife georgia spent years north poetry collection gift love published subtitle meant capitalize gift book trend explained title word shell sea merely collection experiments sonic effects words literal meaning atlanta true blessed island paul epic published installments beginning january later year amber tears love printed philadelphia pennsylvania generally received shortly publisher brought songs summer nights collection poems generally lines half previously published magazines wife moved georgia predicted slavery issue soon force home state break united_states believe slaves abused defended institution struck sudden illness wrote dying december georgia words perfect peace published work drama titled sons published earlier year time death prepared manuscripts literary theory intention publishing volumes books lecture series left dollar wife daughter poetic theory literary reputation poetry use legends themes native american culture particularly christian overtones heavily influenced work poems included themes death sorrow images angels lost loves religious conventions time discussion death popular reflected poetry background doctor able depict moments death believed close connection poetry god true poetry written divine inspiration wrote poets divine thought clothed authority high work minds men wrote poetry power given god man wise relations god crystal river soul runs avenues life affections heart preface states poetry crystal river soul runs avenues life affections heart introduction atlanta written published gives lengthy discussion poetic theory pre dating ideas suggest poetic principle example suggests poems short successful poem considerable length pleasing educated person length time experimented blank verse early collection included poems blank verse time considered best contemporary english poet like time called development distinctive american literature especially encouraged young writers called poetry collection lost honest sensitive heart overall called best worst poets america offered praise poetry possesses poetic sufficiently marked command language caught young subjected training artist commented works melancholy group poets criticized intensity epithet verse parody literary built mild reputation lifetime counting fame faded away quickly death writers acknowledged influence included critical anonymous reviewer possibly joked formulaic suggested formula included mild sweetness originality literary scholar wrote stronger reputation born north literary surely preserved time space list works path sorrow poems gift love death devil atlanta true blessed island paul epic amber tears love songs summer nights sons tragic acts
Thomas Holley Chivers