Carolina Chansons: Legends of the Low Country

DuBose Heyward (1885 - 1940) and Hervey Allen (1889 - 1949)

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)

Genre(s): Poetry

Language: English

Section Chapter Reader Time
Play 01 Acknowledgments and Preface Laurie Anne Walden
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Play 02 Seance at Sunrise; Silences; Presences Laurie Anne Walden
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Play 03 The Pirates Laurie Anne Walden
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Play 04 The Sewees of Sewee Bay; La Fayette Lands Laurie Anne Walden
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Play 05 The Priest and the Pirate: A Ballad of Theodosia Burr Laurie Anne Walden
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Play 06 Palmetto Town; Carolina Spring Song Laurie Anne Walden
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Play 07 The Last Crew Laurie Anne Walden
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Play 08 Landbound; Two Pages from the Book of the Sea Islands Laurie Anne Walden
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Play 09 Modern Philosopher; Upstairs-Downstairs; Hag-hollerin' Time; Macabre in Macaws; Gamesters All; Eclipse Laurie Anne Walden
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Play 10 Edgar Allan Poe; Alchemy; Osceola Laurie Anne Walden
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Play 11 Magnolia Gardens; Middleton Garden Laurie Anne Walden
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Play 12 The Goose Creek Voice; The Leaping Poll Laurie Anne Walden
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Play 13 The Blockade Runner Laurie Anne Walden
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Play 14 Beyond Debate; Marsh Tackies; Back River; Dusk Laurie Anne Walden
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