Title: Theodore O'Hara
First published: 1998
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.
Subjects: American Poets, Biography, Homes and haunts, Intellectual life, Irish Americans, Poets, American, Soldiers, Poets, biography, Tennessee, biography
Places: Southern States
People: Theodore O'Hara (1820-1867)
Time periods: 19th century
LC classification: PS2488 .H75 1998