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Sumner Lincoln Fairfield (June 25, 1803 – March 6, 1844) was an
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Retrieved December 29, 2008 * "Fairfield, Sumner Lincoln" ''American Authors 1600-1900'', The H. W. Wilson Company, 1938 * Hughes, Thomas Patrick, and Frank Munsell. ''American Ancestry: Giving Name and Descent, in the Male Line, of Americans Whose Ancestors Settled in the United States Previous to the Declaration of Independence, A.D. 1776.'' (pp. 69–70) Albany, N.Y.: Munsell, 1887
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Sumner Lincoln Fairfield (June 25, 1803 – March 6, 1844) was an American poet
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, born in Warwick, Massachusetts
Warwick is a town in Franklin County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 780 at the 2020 census. It is part of the Springfield, Massachusetts Metropolitan Statistical Area.
History
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to Dr. Abner Fairfield and Lucy Lincoln. From 1818 to 1820, he studied at Brown University
Brown University is a private research university in Providence, Rhode Island. Brown is the seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, founded in 1764 as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providenc ...
, but he was compelled to leave after 2 years. He taught school in Georgia and South Carolina. In December 1825 he spent 4 months in England and when he returned he married Jane Frazee on September 20, 1826. Sumner had a very sensitive and melancholy personality and according to his wife Jane, "His nature was haughty, unbending, and reserved; he could not brook personal or newspaper attacks. I have seen him writhe under mental pain even upon a criticism of a poem." Fairfield, p. 54
Principal works
* ''The Battle of Borodino.'' 1821 * ''The Siege of Constantinople A Poem.'' 1822 * ''Memoirs of the Life of Mrs. Lucy Fairfield.'' 1823 * ''Poems.'' 1823 * ''Lays of Melpomene.'' 1824 * ''Mina A Dramatic Sketch, with Other Poems.'' 1825 * ''The Sisters of St. Clara.'' 1825 * ''The Passage of the Sea A Poem : with Other Pieces.'' 1826 * ''The Heir of the World, And Lesser Poems.'' 1829 * ''Abaddon, the Spirit of Destruction; And Other Poems.'' 1830 * ''The Last Night of Pompeii A Poem, and Lays and Legends.'' 1832 * ''The Poems and Prose Writings of Sumner Lincoln Fairfield In Two Volumes ; Vol. I.'' 1841Notes
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*Fairfield, Jane Frazee, and Sumner Lincoln Fairfield. ''The Autobiography of Jane Fairfield; Embracing a Few Select Poems by Sumner Lincoln Fairfield.'' Boston: Bazin and Ellsworth, 1860.googlebooks.com
Retrieved December 29, 2008 * "Fairfield, Sumner Lincoln" ''American Authors 1600-1900'', The H. W. Wilson Company, 1938 * Hughes, Thomas Patrick, and Frank Munsell. ''American Ancestry: Giving Name and Descent, in the Male Line, of Americans Whose Ancestors Settled in the United States Previous to the Declaration of Independence, A.D. 1776.'' (pp. 69–70) Albany, N.Y.: Munsell, 1887
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