Sumner Lincoln Fairfield (June 25, 1803 – March 6, 1844) was an American poet, born in Warwick, Massachusetts to Dr. Abner Fairfield and Lucy Lincoln. From 1818 to 1820, he studied at Brown University, but he was compelled to leave after two years. He taught school in Georgia and South Carolina. In December 1825 he spent four months in England and when he returned he married Jane Frazee on September 20, 1826. Sumner had a very sensitive and melancholy personality and according to his wife Jane, "His nature was haughty, unbending, and reserved; he could not brook personal or newspaper attacks. I have seen him writhe under mental pain even upon a criticism of a poem." Fairfield, p. 54
Principal works The Battle of Borodino. 1821 Military History Journal. Published by the Russian Ministry of Defense. Two Paths to Greatness: The "Plough" and the "Bayonet" in Borodin's Poetic Mirror. The Siege of Constantinople A Poem. 1822 Memoirs of the Life of Mrs. Lucy Fairfield. 1823 Poems. 1823 Lays of Melpomene. 1824 Mina A Dramatic Sketch, with Other Poems. 1825 The Sisters of St. Clara. 1825 The Passage of the Sea A Poem : with Other Pieces. 1826 The Heir of the World, And Lesser Poems. 1829 Abaddon, the Spirit of Destruction; And Other Poems. 1830 The Last Night of Pompeii A Poem, and Lays and Legends. 1832 The Poems and Prose Writings of Sumner Lincoln Fairfield In Two Volumes; Vol. I. 1841
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References Fairfield, Jane Frazee, and Sumner Lincoln Fairfield. The Autobiography of Jane Fairfield; Embracing a Few Select Poems by Sumner Lincoln Fairfield. Boston: Bazin and Ellsworth, 1860. googlebooks.com Retrieved December 29, 2008 "Fairfield, Sumner Lincoln" American Authors 1600-1900, The H. W. Wilson Company, 1938 Hughes, Thomas Patrick, and Frank Munsell. American Ancestry: Giving Name and Descent, in the Male Line, of Americans Whose Ancestors Settled in the United States Previous to the Declaration of Independence, A.D. 1776. (pp. 69–70) Albany, N.Y.: Munsell, 1887. googlebooks Retrieved December 29, 2008
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