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Poetry and the PracticalSpeech | The University of Arkansas Press | 1996 Poetry and the Practical was published
in 1996 by The University of Arkansas Press as part of The Simms Series. Edited with an introduction and notes by
James Everett Kibler Jr., the book contains a lecture written by Simms between
the years of 1851-54, which expanded from one to three parts. Kibler summarizes the lecture as “a clear,
forceful, inspired defense of poetry against those who would relegate it to the
margins of life.”[1] In a 12 November 1850 letter to Evert Augustus
Duyckinck, Simms made first mention of the lecture: “I recieve [sic] another application for a public
Lecture ... |
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The History of South Carolina, from its First European Discovery to its Erection into a RepublicHistory | Redfield | 1860 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 Letters of William Gilmore Simms. Vol. 3Correspondence | U of South Carolina P | 1954 In his lifetime, William Gilmore Simms “was the author of thirty-four works of fiction,
nineteen volumes of poetry, three of drama, three anthologies, three volumes of
history, two of geography, six of biography, and twelve of reviews,
miscellanies and addresses, a total of eighty-two volumes.”[1] The estimate of the output was impressive, if not quite complete.[2] Regardless, Simms’s influence was unparalleled. No
mid-nineteenth-century writer and editor did more to frame white southern
self-identity and nationalism, shape southern historical consciousness, or
foster ... |
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The Letters of William Gilmore Simms. Vol. 4Correspondence | U of South Carolina P | 1955 In his lifetime, William Gilmore Simms “was the author of thirty-four works of fiction,
nineteen volumes of poetry, three of drama, three anthologies, three volumes of
history, two of geography, six of biography, and twelve of reviews,
miscellanies and addresses, a total of eighty-two volumes.”[1] The estimate of the output was impressive, if not quite complete.[2] Regardless, Simms’s influence was unparalleled. No
mid-nineteenth-century writer and editor did more to frame white southern
self-identity and nationalism, shape southern historical consciousness, or
foster ... |
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The Power of Cotton: A Paper Read in the City of New YorkSpeech | 1856 The
Power of Cotton is
a pamphlet published by Chatterton & Brother of New York in 1856. The work claims to be a paper read in New
York in November 1856. The only known
copy of the paper had been in the possession of Theodore Parker, the most
prominent Unitarian and Transcendentalist minister in the northeast in
1856. The work was bequeathed to the
public library of the city of Boston from the Parker estate on 30 October 1864,
four years after Parker’s passing. On
both the cover and title page, the precise location of the reading and the
author’s name were both removed ... |