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Edward Hammond Clarke

 
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Synopsis

The Chaplet: A Collection Of Poems by Edward Hammond Clarke is a mid-19th-century American verse miscellany that blends lyrical nature-painting with social conscience. Originating in 1846, the collection presents a sequence of introductory poems and a broad array of long, lyric pieces that range from meditative reflections on memory and independence to vibrant portraits of landscapes, cities, and historic sites. The poems traverse themes of liberty, patriotism, abolition, temperance, and moral duty, often weaving political sentiment with personal emotion. Significant pieces invoke the mountains and the Hudson, Fort McHenry and Baltimore, Mount Vernon, slavery’s brutality, and the plight and resilience of enslaved individuals, as well as elegies, love, and seasonal imagery. The collection includes titled works such as The Mountains, The Old Battery, To Elizabeth, The South Land, The Slave Girl’s Lament, The Imprisoned Abolitionists, and Lord Guy’s Tower, among many others. The work captures a Victorian-era impulse toward moral earnestness, public virtue, and a reverence for nature, history, and human rights.

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