A Great Southern Poet of the 20th Century – Abbeville Institute

A Great Southern Poet of the 20th Century – Abbeville Institute

“My mother had five sweet normal wholesome children; then I was born.” The poet Archibald Rutledge smiled when he said this, but he was indeed a precocious child, and so not really “normal.” When he was only three years old, he told his mother that he had “made a poem.” I saw a little rattlesnake too young to make his...