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- Publication date: 1830s (x)
- Subject heading: Poetry, American poetry -- 19th century (x)
- Publisher: A.E. Miller (x)
- Holding Institution: University of South Carolina, South Caroliniana Library (x)
- Genre
- Poetry (1)
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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 ... |