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Poet of the Lost Cause: A Life of Father Ryan
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Father Abram J. Ryan (1838-1886) held dual roles in the post-Civil War era: he was at once an architect of ascendant Lost Cause ideology and one of its leading icons. Among Southern sympathizers after the war, his celebrity placed him in a pantheon of Confederate figures that included Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson. Lee's surrender at Appomattox catapulted the then twenty-seven-year-old Catholic chaplain to regional and finally national fame. His verses, which investigated faith and propagated a romanticized view of the Southern cause, went through forty-seven editions by the 1930s, and Ryan himself became a near-mythical figure: the celebrated "Poet-Priest of the South." Ryan's deep involvement in a variety of causes brought him into dialogue with cultural movements ranging from Fenianism and public school debates to sentimentalism and female religious orders. His posthumous influence extended to such writers as William Faulkner, Margaret Mitchell, O. Henry, and Flannery O'Connor. Praised by President William McKinley and by Joseph Pulitzer, Ryan was well-loved by those who commemorated a nearly imagined antebellum South--so much so that the myth of Ryan sometimes rivaled the myth of the Old South. A lack of verifiable information about Father Ryan's life aided this mythologizing process. Biographical material lies scattered in archives around the nation and the world, and much is spurious or hagiographical, particularly concerning the nature of Ryan's military service, which has remained (until now) a mystery. The result of meticulous scholarship and decades of careful collecting to create a body of reliable information, this definitive, full-length biography of the enigmaticConfederate poet presents a close examination of the man behind the myth and separates Lost Cause legend from fact. Scholars and students of the Civil War, of the Irish in America, and of American religious history will find this a fascinating examination of a controversial figure. |
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