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The Charleston Book: A Miscellany in Prose and VerseMiscellany | The Reprint Company; Samuel Hart, Sen. | 1845, 1983 One of the major American cities
of the mid-19th century, Charleston was viewed by its citizens as a
hub of culture and erudition equal to that of the other great cities of the
time, including New York, Boston, Philadelphia, and Baltimore. To illustrate the quality of the city’s
intellectual life and literary merits, “Charleston book-seller and Reform
Jewish leader Samuel Hart, Sr. proposed that Charlestonians join the trend” of
putting together an anthology of writings by city residents, much as several
other cities had done throughout the late 1830s.[1] Simms, the leading ... |
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The Cosmopolitan: An OccasionalMiscellany | Wm. Estill | 1833 Simms was the primary, anonymous
contributor to the Cosmopolitan: An
Occasional, and the two numbers of this short-lived publication reveal the
state of his talents at the end of his apprenticeship period. Issued in May and July 1833 by Wm. Estill of
Charleston, the two issues of the Cosmopolitan
are among the works leading to what John C. Guilds calls Simms’s “flurry of
literary efforts that produced four major works of fiction within the next two
years.”.[1]
As such, Guilds suggests that the
Cosmopolitan be considered not so much for the quality of Simms’s
inconsistent ... |