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'''Richard Henry Wilde''' (September 24, 1789 – September 10, 1847) was a [[United States Representativerepresentative]] and lawyer from [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]].

In 1814, Wilde was elected as a [[Democratic-Republican Party (United States)|Democratic-Republican]] Representative to the [[14th United States Congress]] and served one term from March 4, 1815, until March 3, 1817, as he lost his reelection campaign in 1816. Upon [[Thomas W. Cobb]]'s resignation, Wilde successfully ran as a Crawford Republican to fill that seat in the [[18th United States Congress|18th Congress]] and served only a month from February 7, 1825, to March 3, 1825. After several more unsuccessful Congressional campaigns in 1824 and 1826, Wilde ran again in 1827 as a Jacksonian to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of [[John Forsyth (politician)|John Forsyth]] and won election to fill that term. He was reelected to three additional terms ([[21st United States Congress|21st]], [[22nd United States Congress|22nd]] and [[23rd United States Congress|23rd]] Congresses) in that seat and served from November 17, 1827, to March 3, 1835.

Wilde wrote a well known poem ''[[Hesperia (poem)|Hesperia]]'' about the [[geography]] and [[topography]] of the United States.<ref name = "adv"/> His [[magnum opus]] was an unfinished poem called "My life is like the Summer Rose" that he wrote to remember his brother, James Wilde, who was killed in a [[duel]].<ref>{{cite journal|title=The New York Mirror: A Weekly Gazette of Literature and the Fine Arts|journal=12|date=1834|page=276|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XL0iAQAAMAAJ&lpgq=PA276&dq=richard%20henry%20wilde%20My%20life%20is%20like%20the%20Summer%20Rose%20james%20wildejames+wilde+&pg=PA276#q=james%20wilde%20|accessdate=8 November 2016|last1=Woodworth|first1=Samuel|last2=Morris|first2=George Pope|last3=Willis|first3=Nathaniel Parker}}</ref> He wrote several other works, prompting [[Rufus Wilmot Griswold]] to consider including him in one of his influential anthologies. Though he did provide several pieces for Griswold to include, Wilde responded, "As literature does no good for an advocate's reputation, I should be pleased if you will give my place... to somebody else."<ref name=parks>{{cite book |first=Edd Winfield |last=Parks, |author-link=Edd Winfield. ''Parks |title=Ante-Bellum Southern Literary Critics''. |location=Athens, GA: |publisher=University of Georgia Press, |date=1962: 56.}}</ref>{{rp|56}} The only complete book-length work published in his lifetime was ''Conjectures and Researches concerning the Love, Madness, and Imprisonment of [[Torquato Tasso]]'' (1842). Two works left incomplete were ''Life and Times of [[Dante]]'' and ''Specimens of the Italian Lyric Poets''.<ref>Parks, Edd Winfield. ''Ante-Bellum Southern Literary Critics''. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1962: 52.<name=parks/ref> AL{{rp|52}}

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