A Wreath of Virginia Bay Leaves
J. B. H. · English
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A Wreath of Virginia Bay Leaves
J. B. H. · English
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INTRODUCTION. It has been claimed for James Barron Hope that he was "Virginia's Laureate." He did not deal in "abstractions, or generalized arguments," or vague mysticisms. He fired the imagination purely, he awoke lofty thoughts and presented, through his noble odes that which is the soul of "every true poem, a living succession of concrete images and pictures." James Barron, the elder, organized the Virginia Colonial Navy, of which he was commander-in-chief during the Revolution, a
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