Carolina Chansons: Legends of the Low Country

by Hervey Allen, DuBose Heyward

14 chapters1h 52mEnglish1922

About this book

This is a collection of poems about Charleston and the South Carolina Lowcountry. DuBose Heyward was a Charleston native best known for his novel Porgy, which was the basis for the Gershwin opera Porgy and Bess. Hervey Allen, who later wrote Anthony Adverse, met Heyward after moving to Charleston to teach. Together they founded the Poetry Society of South Carolina, which is still active today. (Summary by Laurie Anne Walden)

Chapters (14)

1Acknowledgments and Preface

258

2Seance at Sunrise; Silences; Presences

512

3The Pirates

696

4The Sewees of Sewee Bay; La Fayette Lands

536

5The Priest and the Pirate: A Ballad of Theodosia Burr

591

6Palmetto Town; Carolina Spring Song

200

7The Last Crew

720

8Landbound; Two Pages from the Book of the Sea Islands

480

9Modern Philosopher; Upstairs-Downstairs; Hag-hollerin' Time; Macabre in Macaws; Gamesters All; Eclipse

523

10Edgar Allan Poe; Alchemy; Osceola

347

11Magnolia Gardens; Middleton Garden

400

12The Goose Creek Voice; The Leaping Poll

367

13The Blockade Runner

631

14Beyond Debate; Marsh Tackies; Back River; Dusk

507

Carolina Chansons: Legends of the Low Country

About this book

Chapters (14)

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