Nathan C. Brooks
Nathan Covington Brooks (August 12, 1809-1898) was an educator, historian, and poet from Maryland.
Biography
Nathan Covington Brooks was born in West Nottingham, Cecil County, Maryland. He began his education at the West Nottingham Academy. Upon graduating, Brooks continued his education at St. John's College in Annapolis. There he received an A.M.
After receiving his degree, Brooks began a career as a teacher. His first teaching position was in Charlestown, Cecil County. He held this position for two years before deciding to open a private school in Baltimore in 1826. Brooks presided over the institution for five years. In 1831, he was elected principal of the Franklin Academy in Reisterstown, Maryland. After three years at the Franklin Academy, Brooks became principal of the Brookesville Academy in Montgomery County, Maryland.
In 1839, Brooks was unanimously selected out of a pool of 45 candidates to be the first principal of the new male high school (now the Baltimore City College) in Baltimore. He served in this capacity until 1849. The previous year Brooks had been asked by the Board of Trustees of the Baltimore Female College to be its first president. While at the Baltimore Female College, Brooks received his LL.D. from Emory College in Oxford, Georgia in 1859. Brooks served as president of the Baltimore Female College until it was closed in 1890.
The American Museum
In 1838, Brooks purchased Summer Lincoln Fairfield's The North American Quarterly and moved the publication from Philadelphia to Baltimore. Brooks partnered with Joseph E. Snodgrass to transform the publication into the The American Museum of Science, Literature and the Arts.[1] The magazine mainly functioned as a literary publication, featuring literary criticism as well as poetry and short stories.
Brooks, who was a friend of the famed poet Edgar Allan Poe, published several of Poe's works in The American Museum. Poe's "Ligeia", " A Predicament" (originally published as "The Scythe of Time"), and "The Haunted Palace" were all originally published in Brooks' magazine.[2] Nevertheless, the magazine was short lived. Only two volumes of the magazine were published and it ceased to exist after 1839.
Selected works
- A Complete History Of The Mexican War; Its Causes, Conduct, And Consequences, Comprising An Account Of The Various Military And Naval Operations From Its Commencement To The Treaty Of Peace (Reprint: Scholar's Bookshelf, 2006) ISBN 1601050704
- First Lessons in Greek a Series of Exercises analytical and Synthetical in Greek Syntax (Sorin and Ball, 1847) ASIN B000GWGRO0
References
- ^ The American Museum. E.A. Poe Society (2000-04-21). Retrieved on 2007-06-18.
- ^ Poe's writings in The American Museum. E.A. Poe Society (2000-04-21). Retrieved on 2007-06-18.
External links
- Brooks' Poetry
- The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidius Naso; elucidated by an analysis and explanation of the fables, together with English notes, historical, mythological and critical, and illustrated by pictorial embellishments: with a dictionary, giving the meaning of all the words with critical exactness. By Nathan Covington Brooks. Publisher: New York, A. S. Barnes & co.; Cincinnati, H. W. Derby & co., 1857 (a searchable facsimile at the University of Georgia Libraries; DjVu & layered PDF format)
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