Archibald Rutledge

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Archibald Rutledge (1883-1973) was a South Carolina poet laureate. He attended the Porter Military Academy, now the exclusive Porter-Gaud School, in Charleston, SC. His ancestors included a Governor of South Carolina, a chief justice of the US Supreme Court, and a signer of the Declaration of Independence. Later in life, he taught English at Mercersburg Academy in Pennsylvania.

[edit] Notable Rutledge works

  • The Heart's Quest
  • Under the Pines
  • The Banners of the Coast
  • Spirit of Mercesburg
  • Old Plantation Days
  • Plantation Game Trails
  • South of Richmond
  • Days off Dixie
  • Heart of the South
  • A Monarch of the Sky
  • Children of Swamp and Wood
  • Life's Extras
  • Bolio and Other Dogs
  • The Flower of Hope
  • Peace in the Heart
  • Veiled Eros
  • When Boys go off to School
  • Wild Life of the South
  • Brimming Chalice
  • An American Hunter
  • My colonel and His Lady
  • It Will be Daybreak Soon
  • The Sonnets of Archibald Rutledge
  • Rain on the March
  • Christ is God
  • Home by the River
  • Love's meeting
  • Hunter's Choice
  • The Beauty of Night
  • God's Children
  • The Angel Standing
  • The Everylasting Light and other Poems
  • A Wild Tale
  • A Beauty in the Heart
  • The Heart's Citidel and other Poems
  • Brimming Tide and other Poems
  • Those were the Days

[edit] Honors

  • Archibald Rutledge Academy in McClellanville, South Carolina is named in his honor.