Theodore O'Hara
Subtitle: poet-soldier of the Old South
By: Nathaniel Cheairs Hughes, Jr., and Thomas Clayton Ware.
Contributors: Ware, Thomas Clayton, 1929-
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: University of Tennessee Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Knoxville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
Subjects: O'Hara, Theodore, 1820-1867.; Poets, American -- Homes and haunts -- Southern States.; Irish Americans -- Southern States -- Biography.; Poets, American -- 19th century -- Biography.; Soldiers -- Southern States -- Biography.; Southern States -- Intellectual life.
Description: With this book, Nathaniel Hughes and Thomas Ware offer the first complete biography of O'Hara and also analyze how "The Bivouac of the Dead" - originally written in honor of Kentuckians who had died in the War with Mexico - became so famous even as its author fell into obscurity. Hughes and Ware have meticulously researched O'Hara's life to present as complete a picture as possible of this forgotten figure.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [185]-197) and index.
Table of contents: title: An Irish odyssey; title: The formative years; title: The muffled drum resound!; title: Cuba libre; title: While fame her record keeps; title: The fine gentleman and gallant; title: Hard fortune; title: Mobile; title: Search for a command; title: Murfreesboro; title: Languishing in inactivity; title: The public poet, the private man.