Timrod
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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John Crangle of Common Cause is to make a presentation on his book, “Operation Lost Trust and the Ethics Reform Movement,” at Timrod Library in Summerville at 3 p.m.
From Washington Times • Aug. 26, 2016
And as far as Henry Timrod is concerned, have you even heard of him?
From Salon • Sep. 12, 2012
He stigmatizes the preference given to the Northern poets—Longfellow, for instance—over Timrod as ‘the crowning infamy of American letters.’
From Aladdin & Co. A Romance of Yankee Magic by Quick, Herbert
The "irrepressible conflict" between Law and Poesy that has been waged through the generations broke forth anew, and Timrod made the opposite choice from that reached by Blackstone.
From Literary Hearthstones of Dixie by Pickett, La Salle Corbell
Timrod spent only a year in the college, quitting his studies partly because his health failed, and partly because the family purse was not equal to his scholastic ambition.
From Literary Hearthstones of Dixie by Pickett, La Salle Corbell
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