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AreytosPoetry | John Russell | 1846 Published
in 1846 by John Russell in Charleston, SC, Areytos
was also titled Songs of the South, because
all the poems dealt with subject matter related to the southern United States. Many had been published previously in various
periodicals.[1]
Simms issued this collection on the heels of his Grouped Thoughts and Scattered Fancies. A Collection of Sonnets.[2] Thinking of himself primarily as a poet and
wanting to secure his place as one of America’s best, he followed the
publications of Grouped Thoughts
(1845) and Areytos (1846) with five
other volumes of poetry, all published ... |
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Charleston, and Her Satirists; a Scribblement.Poetry | 1848 Charleston and Her Satirists consists of a single poem that
William Gilmore Simms drafted in response to a previously published work on
Charleston. Simms is not directly
identified as the author, but is referred to as “A City Bachelor.” The work was printed and published in two
sections by James S. Burges in Charleston, SC during 1848. The first section probably came to press
sometime around November 24, as that is when Simms sent a copy to J.H.
Hammond.[1] In the accompanying letter, Simms asked for
Hammond’s opinion of the work, noting that he himself had some ... |
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City of the SilentPoetry | Walker & James, Publishers | 1850 The City of the Silent is a poem of 500 lines written
by William Gilmore Simms in November 1850.
It was published by Walker & James in Charleston, SC that
same year. The cover lists a specific
date, November 19, which was the date that Simms delivered the poem at
the consecration of the new Magnolia Cemetery on the banks of the Cooper River, just north of Charleston. Although it was being
published in December of 1850, and despite the fact the cover notes the date of
publication as 1850, the work was released as a pamphlet in February of 1851.[1]
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Donna Florida. A Tale.Poetry | Burges and James | 1843 Donna Florida is a narrative poem dealing with Ponce de Leon's exploits in what would later become Spanish Florida. Before full publication in 1843, portions of the poem appeared in The Boston Monthly
in 1841 and in the February-May 1843 issues of the Magnolia.[1] Simms more than likely paid for the
publication of this work in book form himself, with the volume being issued in
1843 by Burges and James in Charleston, SC.[2] Simms
described the work as not “published, but presented for private distribution.”[3] Indeed, according to a 29 June 1843 letter
that Simms sent ... |
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Early LaysPoetry | A.E. Miller | 1827
The
year 1827 was an eventful one for William Gilmore Simms. He completed reading law in the office of boyhood friend Charles Rivers Carroll and was appointed as a magistrate for Charleston; his
first child, Anna Augusta Singleton, was born, and he published two volumes of
collected poetry.[1] Early
Lays was the second
of those volumes and it was published by A.E. Miller of Charleston in the fall
of 1827.[2] In his dedication Simms noted, however, that
the material in Early
Lays was
“principally compiled from a surplus quantity of matter left from the
publication ... |
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Lays of the Palmetto: A Tribute to the South Carolina Regiment, in the War with Mexico.Poetry | John Russell | 1848 Lays of the Palmetto is a collection of poems that
William Gilmore Simms wrote in honor of the South Carolina regiment that
participated in the war with Mexico. Many
of the poems were originally published in the Charleston Courier in February and March of 1848.[1] Simms
is directly identified as the author of the work on the title page. In a March 23, 1848 letter to his friend and
New York agent, James Lawson, Simms indicated to him that he had “just finished,”
the work and was preparing it to go to press.[2] In late July 1848, Lays of the Palmetto was published by John ... |
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Lyrical and Other PoemsPoetry | Ellis & Neufville | 1827
The
Charleston firm of Ellis & Neufville issued Lyrical
and Other Poems, which was Simms’s first published collection of poetry,
in January or early February of 1827. An
early date is most likely, because the copyright notice reprinted at the front
of the text indicates that Ellis & Neufville filed the necessary paperwork
on December 13, 1826, and a review of the volume appeared in the New York Literary Gazette
and American Athenæum on February 3, 1827. The collection was generally well-received by
critics and in later years Simms would recall fondly the praise ... |
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Norman Maurice; or, The Man of the People. An American Drama.Drama | Walker and Richards | 1852 Throughout his long career,
Simms was regularly concerned with theatre, though drama would always be the
genre with which he had the least commercial and critical success. Norman
Maurice; or,The Man of the the People is perhaps Simms’s best dramatic
work, though its failings are typical of his theatrical frustrations. Norman
Maurice was a lofty experiment, mixing contemporary politics with common
language presented in the format of the Elizabethan tragedy. Written in strict blank verse, Norman Maurice is a play in which the
Constitutional and slavery questions that ... |
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Sabbath Lyrics: A Christmas Gift of LovePoetry | Press of Walker and James | 1849 Sabbath Lyrics is a collection of poems written
by William Gilmore Simms based on Christian scripture. The poems featured in this collection had
been published previously in Godey’s
throughout 1848 and 1849.[1] These individual poems were published as a
collection in 1849 by the Press of Walker and James in Charleston, SC. Simms intended for this work
to be, “a Christmas giftbook,” that people could give as a Christmas present to
their loved ones. His effort to find a
printer for the work in July of 1849, however, was unsuccessful.[2] In a letter to Nathaniel ... |
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South-Carolina in the Revolutionary WarReviews/Essays | Walker & James, Publishers | 1853 Throughout his life, William
Gilmore Simms was deeply invested in researching and interpreting the history
of the American Revolution and was particularly concerned with promoting the
participation of his native South Carolina in that conflict. As evidenced by his biographies of Francis
Marion and Nathanael Greene, his series of epic romances of the Revolution
largely set in South Carolina, and his emphasis on the Revolution in his The History of South Carolina, Simms’s
understanding of South Carolina’s role in the conflict was one of patriotism
and heroic self-sacrifice. ... |
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The Cassique of Accabee. Tale of Ashley River. With Other Pieces by William Gilmore Simms.Poetry | John Russell | 1849 The
Cassique of Accabee, a volume of
poetry by William Gilmore Simms, features one long narrative poem, which shares
its title with the book. The volume also
contains a section of shorter poems.
These poems were all previously published in other forms before they
appeared in this collection,[1] published
by John Russell in 1849 in Charleston, South Carolina. As James Kibler notes, the volume was
completely printed by September 19, 1849, but copies were still being bound
around September 27, 1849.[2] Kibler observes further that subsequent copies
of the work, all of which were ... |
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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 ... |
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The Geography of South CarolinaHistory | Babcock & Co. | 1843
The
Geography of South Carolina, written as a companion piece for the 1842 edition of The History of South Carolina, was
published by Babcock & Co. in 1843.
Simms conceived of The History
and The Geography as parts of a
single project and initially desired the two books to be published together in
one volume.[1] Sean R. Busick notes that such a publication
was cost-prohibitive; thus, The History
and The Geography were published
separately.[2] In the preface to The Geography, Simms suggests another reason for their
separate publication: by breaking
up his subject ... |
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The Golden Christmas: A Chronicle of St. John's, BerkeleyNovella | Walker, Richards & Co. | 1852 Published by Walker &
Richards in 1852, The Golden Christmas is
novella of social manners set in the lowcountry of Berkeley County near Charleston, South Carolina. Geography is
of central importance to both the book itself and the story within. Charleston, as the home of the author, the
setting of the story, and the location of the publisher and printer is as much
the focus of the work as any characters or details of plot; in a 2005
introduction to the novella, critic David Aiken claims that The Golden Christmas “today provides one
of the most comprehensive and accurate ... |
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The History of South Carolina, From Its First European Discovery to Its Erection into a RepublicHistory | S. Babcock & Co. | 1840 Believing it
“necessary to the public man, as to the pupil,” Simms undertook The History of South Carolina explicitly
for the education of the state’s young people, so as to tell them the vibrant
history of the state and the distinguished accomplishments of her leaders.[1] There
is evidence to suggest that Simms was particularly motivated to write such a
history in order to provide an historical account of South Carolina and notable
South Carolinians, to his eldest child Augusta, who was attending boarding
school in Massachusetts in the late 1830s.[2] Simms seemingly ... |
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The Remains of Maynard Davis Richardson with a Memoir of His LifeDocuments | O. A. Roorback | 1833 One of Simms’s most personal
works, The Remains of Maynard Davis
Richardson is an editorial project the writer undertook after his good
friend Richardson’s premature death at the age of 20 on 12 October 1832. While details about their friendship remain scarce,
it is known that Richardson accompanied Simms on the writer’s first trip to the
North,[1]
and Simms dedicated his long 1832 narrative poem Atalantis to him, referring to the younger man’s “high moral and
intellectual worth” in his dedicatory note.
The families of the two men had been long acquainted ... |
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The Sword and the Distaff; or, "Fair, Fat and Forty," A Story of the South, at the Close of RevolutionNovel (Romance) | Walker, Richards & Co. | 1852 Written in the “midst of one of the
most productive creative surges in his career,”[1]
Woodcraft; or, Hawks About the Dovecote:
A Story of the South at the Close of the Revolution makes the most serious
and sustained claim as Simms’s masterpiece in the novel form.[2] The fifth novel composed in Simms’s saga of
the American Revolution, it is set during the chaotic close and aftermath of
the war. This makes it the last (eighth)
Revolutionary Romance in terms of chronological action. As the work opens, the
British are evacuating Charleston in December 1782. Then the novel shifts ... |
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The Vision of Cortes, Cain, and Other Poems.Poetry | James S. Burges, 44 Queen Street | 1829
The Vision of Cortes, Cain, and Other Poems, Simms's fourth separate
publication, was issued in the summer of
1829. Like his three previous works,
it is a volume of poetry. Comprised primarily of the three long poems “The Vision of Cortes,” “Cain,” and “Ashley River,” the volume also contains a number of shorter works, some of which had been previously published in other venues. The subject
matter of the volume ranges widely, moving from the title poem, which recalls in verse the 1518
expedition of Hernán
Cortés into Mexico,
to an ode to South Carolina’s ... |