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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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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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Monody, on the Death of Gen. Charles Cotesworth PinckneyPoetry | 1825
In 1825, a nineteen-year-old Simms published his first major work, Monody, on the Death of Gen. Charles
Cotesworth Pinckney, and thus took his initial step toward establishing
himself as one of the leading literary voices in Charleston. His work at this time, and especially in this
long poem, pointed to intellectual concerns that would follow him throughout
his literary career. Monody was published during one of
Simms’s first periods of sustained literary labor, his acting as editor of the Album: A Weekly Miscellany, a magazine
first published on 2 July 1825, and then every Saturday for the rest ... |
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The Tri-Color; or The Three Days of Blood in Paris. With Some Other PiecesPoetry | Wigfall & Davis, Strand | c. 1831
William Gilmore Simms published The Tri-Color; or
the Three Days of Blood, in Paris. With Some Other Pieces in
the winter of 1830 or the spring of 1831. He did so anonymously, and
the advertisement at the front of the text says simply, “The Work, now offered
to the notice of the British Public, is by an American Citizen.” Though
Simms told James Lawson that he did not “wish to be known as its author for a
variety of reasons,” he did list it among his publications multiple times
within his letters.[1] James Kibler suggests that one
reason that Simms may have ... |
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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 ... |