Furl that Banner: The Life of Abram J. Ryan, Poet-priest of the SouthMercer University Press, 2006 - 251 Seiten "In 1879, Abram J. Ryan's name was a household name in the South, especially after the publication of his book Father Ryan's Poems. Republished a year later with a new title, Poems, Patriotic, Religious and Miscellaneous, and under the imprint of a Baltimore publisher with a national distribution network, it would go through forty editions until 1929. The two most important poems were "The Conquered Banner" (1865) and "The Sword of Robert Lee" (1866). These works were committed to memory by three generations of school children in the South until about the middle of the twentieth century. Margaret Mitchell, who knew them by heart, included Ryan as a character in GWTW because of her admiration for his work. Ryan was the editor of the Banner of the South, an anti-Reconstruction newspaper, in Augusta, Georgia, and popularized the term "Lost Cause". His outspoken views with regard to the policies of the federal government caused him to lose the support of the paper's owner, Bishop Verot of Savannah. When the paper was closed down, he moved to Mobile, Alabama, serving as a parish priest for ten years. He also spent three of these years (1872-1875) as the editor of the Catholic weekly of New Orleans, the Morning Star and Catholic Messenger. Until now, no one has been able to understand why Ryan left the quiet life of retirement in Mississippi to begin preaching around the country to raise money. Based on the study of the heretofore unknown correspondence between Ryan and two nuns in a Carmelite convent in New Orleans, Ryan became convinced that he could save his soul by devoting the last years of his life to paying off the mortgage on their convent. Tragically, he worked himself to death in this endeavor. This book is the first to place the Ryan story in its proper place."--Publisher's website. |
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... become a priest . He began that school year by praying incessantly to the Blessed Virgin for guidance . He kept at it for weeks until , on 21 November , his last doubts were swept away . On that day , the feast of the Presentation of ...
... become a priest . He began that school year by praying incessantly to the Blessed Virgin for guidance . He kept at it for weeks until , on 21 November , his last doubts were swept away . On that day , the feast of the Presentation of ...
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... become famous in later years . Now , because of his burgeoning reputation as a preacher , as well as his impatience and thirst for recognition , the Vincentians decided that he could be ordained without delay , even though he had not ...
... become famous in later years . Now , because of his burgeoning reputation as a preacher , as well as his impatience and thirst for recognition , the Vincentians decided that he could be ordained without delay , even though he had not ...
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... become a priest , she decides to enter a cloistered convent . After writing the poem , Ryan kept it to himself until 1879 , when it appeared for the first time in Father Ryan's Poems . He would later make it clear that the poem tells ...
... become a priest , she decides to enter a cloistered convent . After writing the poem , Ryan kept it to himself until 1879 , when it appeared for the first time in Father Ryan's Poems . He would later make it clear that the poem tells ...
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The Illinois Sojourn 18621863 | 21 |
Ryan in Tennessee 18631867 | 55 |
The Georgia Years 18681870 | 77 |
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