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The News Herald is an American, English language daily newspaper based in Morganton, North Carolina covering Burke County, North Carolina. The preceding newspapers include The Morganton Herald (1889–1901) and The Burke County News (1899–1901). [3] The News Herald is a member of the North Carolina Press Association. [1]
Frances Stewart Silver (born 1814 or 1815; died July 12, 1833) was hanged in Morganton, Burke County, North Carolina for the axe murder of her husband Charles Silver. Frankie Silver, as she was known, is believed to have been the first woman executed in North Carolina. [1]
The obituary poets were, in the popular stereotype, either women or clergymen. [12] Obituary poetry may be the source of some of the murder ballads and other traditional narrative verse of the United States, and the sentimental tales told by the obituary poets showed their abiding vitality a hundred years later in the genre of teenage tragedy ...
Morganton is a city in and county seat of Burke County, North Carolina, United States. [4] The population was 17,474 at the 2020 census. [5] Morganton is approximately 75 miles (121 km) northwest of Charlotte and 57 miles (92 km) east of Asheville. Morganton is one of the principal cities in the Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton, NC Metropolitan ...
At its most basic, 'newspaper poetry' refers to poetry that appears in a newspaper. In 19th-century usage, the term acquired aesthetic overtones. Lorang, discussing newspaper poetry's reception in the United States, observes that '[p]erhaps the most commonly espoused view was that newspaper poetry was light verse unworthy of the space it required and unworthy of significant consideration'. [1]
Kenneth Burke, Book of Monuments: Poems 1915–1954 [13] John Ciardi, As If [13] Robert P. Tristram Coffin, Selected Poems, among eight books of poetry included in "A List of 250 Outstanding Books of the Year" in The New York Times Book Review [10] Gregory Corso, The Vestal Lady on Brattle and Other Poems [13] Louis Coxe, The Second Man [13]
George Moses Horton (c. 1798–after 1867), was an African-American poet from North Carolina who was enslaved until Union troops, carrying the Emancipation Proclamation, reached North Carolina (1865).
Moses Jackson (1858-1923) while an undergraduate, the news of whose approaching death inspired Housman to compile Last Poems. Housman was an emotionally withdrawn man whose closest friend and lifelong unrequited love Moses Jackson had been his roommate when he was at Oxford in 1877–82.