Archibald Rutledge

Archibald Rutledge

Archibald Rutledge (1883-1973) was a South Carolina poet laureate. He attended the Porter Military Academy, now the exclusive Porter-Gaud School, in Charleston, SC. His ancestors included a Governor of South Carolina, a chief justice of the US Supreme Court, and a signer of the Declaration of Independence. Later in life, he taught English at Mercersburg Academy in Pennsylvania.

Notable Rutledge works

*The Heart's Quest
*Under the Pines
*The Banners of the Coast
*Spirit of Mercesburg
*Old Plantation Days
*Plantation Game Trails
*South of Richmond
*Days off Dixie
*Heart of the South
*A Monarch of the Sky
*Children of Swamp and Wood
*Life's Extras
*Bolio and Other Dogs
*The Flower of Hope
*Peace in the Heart
*Veiled Eros
*When Boys go off to School
*Wild Life of the South
*Brimming Chalice
*An American Hunter
*My colonel and His Lady
*It Will be Daybreak Soon
*The Sonnets of Archibald Rutledge
*Rain on the March
*Christ is God
*Home by the River
*Love's meeting
*Hunter's Choice
*The Beauty of Night
*God's Children
*The Angel Standing
*The Everylasting Light and other Poems
*A Wild Tale
*A Beauty in the Heart
*The Heart's Citidel and other Poems
*Brimming Tide and other Poems
*Those were the Days

Honors

*Archibald Rutledge Academy in McClellanville, South Carolina is named in his honor.


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