SOURCE: “Paul Hamilton Hayne and Northern Magazines, 1866‐1886,” in Essays Mostly on Periodical Publishing in America, edited by James Woodress, Duke University Press, 1973, pp. 134‐47.

In the following essay, Moore traces Hayne's mixed relationship with various Northern magazines of his day.

Shortly after the end of the Civil War, Paul Hamilton Hayne (1830‐1886), poet, editor, and a lifelong resident of Charleston, South Carolina, left his ruined home, went to Augusta, Georgia, and took a job on the Constitutionalist, a local newspaper. Discovering after a few months that his frail constitution could not stand the ten‐hour day, Hayne resigned, bought Copse Hill, a small tract of land sixteen miles away, and settled into a career as magazinist and man of letters.¹

Before the war Hayne had in the 1850's written three books of poetry; contributed to the Southern Literary Messenger, Graham's Magazine, and the Atlantic Monthly; and edited the Southern Literary...