Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Thomas Bailey Aldrich (born 11th November 1836, died 19th March 1907) was a poet and novelist born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, USA. Image File history File links Aldrich,_Thomas_Bailey. ... Image File history File links Aldrich,_Thomas_Bailey. ... November 11 is the 315th day of the year (316th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 50 days remaining. ... Charles Darwin 1836 was a leap year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... March 19 is the 78th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (79th in leap years). ... 1907 (MCMVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... Poet is a term applied to a person who composes poetry, including extended forms such as dramatic verse. ... A novel is an extended work of written, narrative, prose fiction, usually in story form; the writer of a novel is a novelist. ... New Hampshire State Seal, which depicts the USS Raleigh built in 1776 beside the Piscataqua River. ...

When he was but a child his father moved to New Orleans, but after ten years the boy was sent back to Portsmouth--the "Rivermouth" of several of his stories--to prepare for college. This period of his life is partly described in his Story of a Bad Boy (1870), of which "Tom Bailey" is the juvenile hero. New Orleans is the largest city in the state of Louisiana, United States of America. ...

His father's death in 1852 compelled Aldrich to abandon the idea of college and enter a business office in New York. Here he soon became a constant contributor to the newspapers and magazines, and the intimate friend of the young poets, artists and wits of the metropolitan Bohemia of the early sixties, among whom were EC Stedman, RH Stoddard, Fitz Hugh Ludlow, Bayard Taylor and Walt Whitman. From 1856 to 1859 he was on the staff of the Home Journal, then edited by NP Willis, while during the Civil War he was himself editor of the New York Illustrated News. Official language(s) None, English de facto Capital Albany Largest city New York City Area  - Total  - Width  - Length  - % water  - Latitude  - Longitude Ranked 27th 141,205 km² 455 km 530 km 13. ... Edmund Clarence Stedman (October 8, 1833 - January 18, 1908), American poet and critic, was born at Hartford, Connecticut. ... Richard Henry Stoddard (July 2, 1825 - May 12, 1903) was a U.S. critic and poet, was born in Hingham, Massachusetts. ... Fitz Hugh Ludlow, sometimes seen as Fitzhugh Ludlow, (September 11, 1836 – September 12, 1870) was an American author, journalist, and explorer; best-known for his autobiographical book The Hasheesh Eater (1857). ... Bayard Taylor (James) (January 11, 1825 _ 1878) U.S. author and writer, was born at Kennett Square in Chester County, Pennsylvania. ... Walt Whitman Walt Whitman (born Walter Whitman)(May 31, 1819 – March 26, 1892) was an American poet, essayist, journalist, and humanist born on Long Island, New York. ... Combatants United States of America Confederate States of America Commanders Abraham Lincoln Jefferson Davis Strength 1,556,678 (of whom many signed multiple enlistment contracts) 1,064,200 Casualties KIA: 110,100 Total dead: 359,500 Wounded: 275,200 KIA: 74,500 Total dead: 198,500 Wounded: 137,000+  {{{notes...

Thomas Bailey Aldrich House; Strawbery Banke Museum, Portsmouth, NH

In 1865 he moved to Boston and was editor for ten years for Ticknor and Fields--then at the height of their prestige--of the eclectic weekly Every Saturday, discontinued in 1875. From 1881 to 1890 he was editor of the Atlantic Monthly. Image File history File links Thomas Bailey Aldrich House, 1797, now part of Strawbery Banke Museum, Portsmouth, NH; from an old postcard File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Image File history File links Thomas Bailey Aldrich House, 1797, now part of Strawbery Banke Museum, Portsmouth, NH; from an old postcard File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... 1865 is a common year starting on Sunday. ... Boston is a town and small port c. ... George Ticknor (August 1, 1791 - January 26, 1871), was an American teacher and author. ... James Thomas Fields (December 31, 1817 - April 24, 1881), American publisher and author, was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. ...

Meanwhile Aldrich had written much, both in prose and verse. His genius was many-sided, and it is surprising that so busy an editor and so prolific a writer should have attained the perfection of form for which he was remarkable. His successive volumes of verse, chiefly The Ballad of Babie Bell (1856), Pampinea, and Other Poems (1861), Cloth of Gold (1874), Flower and Thorn (1876), Friar Jerome's Beautiful Book (1881), Mercedes and Later Lyrics (18S}), Wyndham Towers (1889), and the collected editions of 1865, 1882, 1897 and 1900, showed him to be a poet of lyrical skill, dainty touch and felicitous conceit, the influence of Herrick being constantly apparent. Robert Herrick (baptized August 24, 1591 - October 1674) was a 17th century English poet. ...

He repeatedly essayed the long narrative or dramatic poem, but seldom with success, save in such earlier work as Garnaut Hall. But no American poet has shown more skill in describing some single picture, mood, conceit or episode. His best things are such lyrics as "Hesperides," "When the Sultan goes to Ispahan," "Before the Rain," "Nameless Pain," "The Tragedy," "Seadrift," "Tiger Lilies," "The One White Rose," "Palabras Cariñosas," "Destiny," or the eight-line poem "Identity," which did more to spread Aldrich's reputation than any of his writing after Babie Bell.

Beginning with the collection of stories entitled Marjorie Daw and Other People (1873), Aldrich applied to his later prose work that minute care in composition which had previously characterized his versetaking a near, new or salient situation, and setting it before the reader in a pretty combination of kindly realism and reticent humour. In the novels, Prudence Palfrey (1874), The Queen of Sheba (1877), and The Stillwater Tragedy (1880), there is more rapid action; but the Portsmouth pictures in the first are elaborated with the affectionate touch shown in the shorter humorous tale, A Rivermouth Romance (1877). In An Old Town by the Sea (1893) the author's birthplace was once more commemorated, while travel and description are the theme of From Ponkapog to Pesth (1883). Aldrich died at Boston on the 19th of March 1907.

His Life was written by Ferris Greenslet (1908).

References

• This article incorporates text from the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, a publication in the public domain.

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External link

• Works by Thomas Bailey Aldrich at Project Gutenberg
• Free audio recording of Marjorie Daw from Librivox