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- Genre: Poetry (x)
- Publication date: 1820s (x)
- Subject heading: Poetry, American poetry -- 19th century (x)
- Time period: Era of the Early Republic (x)
- Places of publication: Charleston, SC (x)
- Creator
- Publisher
- A.E. Miller (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 ... |