The distinguished scholar-diplomat William Brown Hodgson became a mainstay in the cultural and intellectual life of Savannah following his marriage in 1842 to Margaret Telfair, the youngest daughter of Georgia governor Edward Telfair. Education and Diplomatic Career Born on September 1, 1801, in Georgetown, D.C., Hodgson was left fatherless as a young boy. He never attended college, and his formal education was limited to studies in Georgetown, principally under the Reverend James Carnahan, a future president of the College of New Jersey (later Princeton University).

One of two novels by Georgia writer Flannery O’Connor, Wise Blood is a masterpiece of allegory and farce (a blending of humor and tragedy). O’Connor takes issue with a world in which Jesus is but another moral man, in which the Incarnation is valid only to the unintellectual, and in which people can—through their own actions or natural goodness—save themselves. Published in 1952, Wise Blood is a compelling portrait of isolated characters in their search for spiritual truth.

Worth County, spanning 570 square miles, was created from Dooly and Irwin counties by an act of the state legislature on December 20, 1853. Located in southwest Georgia just east of Albany, the county was named for Major General William J. Worth of New York, who gained fame in the Mexican War (1846-48) and was a son-in-law of General Zachary Taylor. Major William Harris, a leader in the formation of the new county, suggested Worth’s name because Harris had served under him.

Wyatt Prunty is identified with a widely based movement among poets sometimes called the New Formalism. Such poets use form (verse and meter) and narrative as a way of exploring and expressing meaning. Prunty does not restrict his poetry to preestablished forms but employs control and order as liberating means of expression. He writes about domestic subjects—his parents, family, personal experiences, and modern life. He is the author of six collections of poetry and one book of criticism and is a frequent reviewer or essayist for poetry and literary journals.

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