Carolina Chansons: Legends of the Low Country

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 31, 2023

In Category - Poetry

Authors: Hervey Allen, DuBose Heyward In Year : 1922

Book Language: English

Audiobook: Carolina Chansons: Legends of the Low Country

Acknowledgments and Preface
Seance at Sunrise; Silences; Presences
The Pirates
The Sewees of Sewee Bay; La Fayette Lands
The Priest and the Pirate: A Ballad of Theodosia Burr
Palmetto Town; Carolina Spring Song
The Last Crew
Landbound; Two Pages from the Book of the Sea Islands
Modern Philosopher; Upstairs-Downstairs; Hag-hollerin' Time; Macabre in Macaws; Gamesters All; Eclipse
Edgar Allan Poe; Alchemy; Osceola
Magnolia Gardens; Middleton Garden
The Goose Creek Voice; The Leaping Poll
The Blockade Runner
Beyond Debate; Marsh Tackies; Back River; Dusk

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)