A Memoir of T. Buchanan Read
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Excerpt from A Memoir of T. Buchanan Read: Born March 12th, 1822; Died May 11th, 1872 This distinguished poet and painter, who achieved such distinction in two entirely distinct yet congenial fields of art, was born March 12th, 1822, in a modest farm-house situate in the Great Valley of Chester County, in what is now East Brandywine Township, near Downingtown, Penn., within the shadow of the blue hills of Uwchlan, where his youth was passed, and from the romantic scenery of which locality were derived those inspirations and accurate descriptions of nature which frequently appear in his poetry. His youth was passed among devout and pious people, members of the industrious, agricultural class, whose lives of purity and usefulness were devoted to labor and the discharge of domestic duties. The writer of this sketch has frequently heard him relate that his first knowledge of the Bible was derived from hearing it read aloud in the family circle, and he would refer to the lasting impression made upon his youthful mind by its beautiful imagery, and how, as he listened to the Scriptural narrative of the Saviour´s ministry on earth, his boyish fancy would locate and associate all its incidents and events upon and with the hills and valleys which lay around him. At the early age of seventeen he was thrown upon his own resources for a livelihood, and in the year 1839 he commenced his career as an artist in the atelier of Clevenger, the sculptor, at Cincinnati. His tastes, however, soon led him into a more congenial field of art culture, that of painting, his skill and success in which soon attracted attention and obtained for him the favor and esteem of such distinguished patrons as Gen. Harrison, then a candidate for the Presidency; Major (subsequently General) Anderson, the distinguished and heroic defender of Fort Sumter; Nicholas Longworth and others. In 1841 he removed to Boston, and in its cultivated literary society his poetical talents were developed, first finding expression through the columns of the "Boston Courier." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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