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Article: Theodore O'Hara: Poet Soldier of the Old South.(Review)
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- The Mississippi Quarterly
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- June 22, 2000
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Theodore O'Hara: Poet Soldier of the Old South, by Nathaniel Cheairs Hughes, Jr., and Thomas Clayton Ware. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1998. pp. xiii, 208. $32.00 cloth.
WHATEVER ELSE IT MAY HAVE BEEN, THE RISE OF MODERNISM was largely a reaction against the nineteenth century. If this was true in England, it was even more emphatically the case in America, where poetic fashion often seemed a pale imitation of models from the mother country. Poets such as Wordsworth, Keats, and Tennyson seem to have survived the onslaught of modernism in far better shape than, say, Longfellow, Whittier, and Lowell. (As Leslie Fiedler noted nearly two decades ago, ...