Antique CDV Photo Civil War Beer Poet GEORGE ARNOLD John Wilkes Booth of Poetry for Sale

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Antique CDV Photo Civil War Beer Poet GEORGE ARNOLD John Wilkes Booth of Poetry:
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RARE Antique CDV Photo Civil War Beer Poet GEORGE ARNOLD, the John Wilkes Booth of Poetry.
Just like actor John Wilkes Booth, poet George Arnold was also a Southern States, Confederate sympathizer during the Civil War and both died at a young age in the year 1865.
The photographer is identified as:William Klauser630 Broadway, New York
The backside has a 3 cent George Washington tax stampaffixed to the backside of this cdv. Tax stamp is initialed signed by the photographer William Klauser.
Tax Revenue Stamps were used to help pay for the Civil War.
From August 1864 to August 1866 photographs were taxed, which required that stamps be affixed to the photo.This cdv has some wear from age, corner wear, soiling and measures approximately 2 1/2 x 4 inches.PLEASE NOTE: Please keep in mind that due to not being an exact science, digital camera taken, uploaded sale photo images may be slightly off in color than when viewed in person.Please see sale photos for condition.I do combine shipping.Thanks for your interest.
George Arnold (June 24, 1834 – November 9, 1865) was an American author and poet.He was born in New York City on June 24, 1834. After briefly attempting a career as a portrait painter, he turned to writing and became a regular contributor to Vanity Fair and The Leader. A contemporary of Walt Whitman, Arnold was likewise a patron of Pfaff\'s beer cellar.His most enduring work is a humorous piece, The Jolly Old Pedagogue.He died on November 9, 1865, in Monmouth County, New Jersey.
Though many details about his early life are in dispute, scholars agree that Arnold was born in New York City and that his father may have been the Reverend George B. Arnold. The family relocated to Illinois and then to Monmouth County, New Jersey where Arnold enjoyed a country upbringing. Though he apprenticed himself to a portrait painter in New York in 1852, Arnold soon determined that literature would be his true calling. His artistic training did, however, aid him in illustrating his own work; he created the caricature of himself as \"McArone,\" included with his Poems (1886), and a drawing of fellow Pfaff\'s regular, sculptor Launt Thompson, which is included in Ferris Greenslet\'s The Life of Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1908).
As McArone (his most successful of many personages--created for a series in Vanity Fair in 1860 and continued in the Leader and Weekly Review), Arnold produced a flood of poems, stories, essays, satires, and editorials in the major literary venues of his day, including Harper\'s, Vanity Fair, and The Atlantic Monthly. He also published poetry and books on children\'s games. Arnold was \"a very clever writer in prose and verse, a regular contributor to the Saturday Press, and remarkable for his versatility\". He was also \"Clapp\'s closest friend and protégé\".
Arnold may have been responsible for Walt Whitman\'s defection from Pfaff\'s. After an impromptu reading of one of Whitman’s poems, there was discord among his listeners: “The poem Whitman shared that night, however, did not solicit the like-minded accord he had expected. Instead it sparked an unusually heated debate around the table about whether the federal government should continue its war, now that nearly six months had passed without a resounding Union victory”. During the debate Arnold “rose from his chair and lifted his wine glass” proposing a toast to the success of the South. The two poets then entered into a heated argument over the issue over Southern rebellion: \"They were sitting opposite each other at the table, George [Arnold] was for rebellion and Walt [Whitman] was opposed...words grew hot. Walt warned George to be more guarded in his sentiments. George fired up more and more. Walt passed his \'mawler\' toward George\'s ear. George passed a bottle of claret toward the topknot of the poet\'s head. Pfaff made a jump and gave a yell of \'Oh! mine gots, mens, what\'s you do for a dis?\' Clapp broke his black pipe while pulling at Arnold\'s coat-tail; Ned Wilkins lost the power of his lungs for five minutes after tugging at the brawny arm of Walt; and we all received a beautiful mixture of rum, claret, and coffee on the knees of our trousers. Everything was soon settled, and Walt and George shook hands, and wondered much that they were so foolish\".Emory Halloway suggests that this brawl leads Whitman to distance himself from Pfaff\'s. Years later, Whitman reportedly forgave Arnold, although he never returned to Pfaff\'s.
Like many of his Pfaff\'s compatriots, Arnold lived a brief and colorful life. Following suit of fellow Pfaff\'s regular Fitz-James O\'Brien, Arnold joined the army when the Civil War broke out, but his health failed and he died at his family home in November 1865. His death at such a young age was unfortunate, but not entirely surprising: \"From such a temperment [sic] as his, earnest and continued exertion was not to be expected. Like Voiture he trifled life away in pointed phrases and tuneful numbers; but gained a large circle of devoted friends. At three and thirty he slipped out of the World which had been much and little to him, and left behind him many sincere mourners who speak of him still with words of love and moistened eyes\".
Beer
Here,With my beerI sit,While golden moments flit:Alas!They passUnheeded by:And, as they fly,I,Being dry,Sit, idly sipping hereMy beer.
O, finer farThan fame, or riches, areThe graceful smoke-wreathes of this cigar!WhyShould IWeep, wail, or sigh?What if luck has passed me by?What if my hopes are dead,—My pleasures fled?Have I not stillMy fillOf right good cheer,—Cigars and beer
Go, whining youth,Forsooth!Go, weep and wail,Sigh and grow pale, Weave melancholy rhymes On the old times,Whose joys like shadowy ghosts appear,But leave me to my beer! Gold is dross,— Love is loss,—So, if I gulp my sorrows down,Or see them drownIn foamy draughts of old nut-brown,Then do wear the crown, Without the cross!Drift And Other Poems.
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POEMS GRAVE AND GAYI. GRAVE.
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II. GAY.
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