Paul Hamilton Hayne, an American poet, born in Charleston, S. C., Jan. 1, 1831. He was educated in Charleston, and became a frequent contributor to the "Southern Literary Messenger" and other periodicals. He was for a time editor of the Charleston "Literary Gazette," was connected with the Charleston "Evening News," and was from its beginning (1857) a principal editor of "Russell's Magazine," published in Charleston. He published a volume of poems in Boston in 1854, and another in New York in 1857. These collections consist chiefly of brief poems, sonnets, and lyrics, "The Temptation of Venus, a Monkish Legend," being the longest. A third volume, entitled "Avolio, and other Poems," was published in 1859. Since then he has been a frequent contributor to periodicals, mainly of short poems. In 1873 he edited the poems of Henry Timrod, and in the same year published in Philadelphia a fourth volume of his poems under the title of " Legends and Lyrics." Since the close of the civil war he has resided in Georgia, near Augusta.