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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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Atalantis. A Story of the Sea: In Three Parts.Poetry | J. & J. Harper | 1832
William
Gilmore Simms published Atalantis. A Story of the Sea: In Three Parts in the
fall of 1832. While Simms’s name does
not appear anywhere on or in the text, it is unlikely that he sought any type
of anonymity in its publication. Within
weeks of its appearing in print a reviewer in the Charleston Courier announced, “It is attributed to the pen of our
fellow-townsman, William Gilmore Simms, Esq.…”[1] Even without such prompting anyone familiar
with Simms’s work would have quickly recognized his authorship, because the
opening sonnet was one that he had previously ... |
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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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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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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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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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Southern Passages and PicturesPoetry | George Adlard | 1839 Southern Passages and Pictures is a volume of poetry by William
Gilmore Simms, although his name is not mentioned directly on the title page.
The work announced its author simply as the writer of “Atalantis,” “The
Yemassee,” “Guy Rivers,” and “Carl Werner,” perhaps assuming that readers would
know Simms in association with his authorship of these well-read works. The volume was published in December of 1838
by George Adlard, who also published Carl
Werner on Simms’s behalf. Craighead
and Allen were the Printers. Although Southern
Passages and Pictures was published ... |
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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 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 ... |