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Atalantis; A Story of the Sea.Poetry | Carey and Hart | 1849
Though the first edition of Atalantis.
A Story of the Sea (1832) was well received by reviewers both North
and South, it had only one printing. The
limited print run of just 500 copies meant that relatively few readers could
enjoy the many “uncommonly strong and vigorous passages” that comprised William
Gilmore Simms’s fanciful tale.[1] Simms was early convinced that a larger
readership existed and that Atalantis offered
him an opportunity to increase his reputation in both the Northern states and
Europe. In 1837 he wrote to James
Lawson, one of his best friends ... |
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The Cosmopolitan: An OccasionalMiscellany | Wm. Estill | 1833 Simms was the primary, anonymous
contributor to the Cosmopolitan: An
Occasional, and the two numbers of this short-lived publication reveal the
state of his talents at the end of his apprenticeship period. Issued in May and July 1833 by Wm. Estill of
Charleston, the two issues of the Cosmopolitan
are among the works leading to what John C. Guilds calls Simms’s “flurry of
literary efforts that produced four major works of fiction within the next two
years.”.[1]
As such, Guilds suggests that the
Cosmopolitan be considered not so much for the quality of Simms’s
inconsistent ... |
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The Remains of Maynard Davis Richardson with a Memoir of His LifeDocuments | O. A. Roorback | 1833 One of Simms’s most personal
works, The Remains of Maynard Davis
Richardson is an editorial project the writer undertook after his good
friend Richardson’s premature death at the age of 20 on 12 October 1832. While details about their friendship remain scarce,
it is known that Richardson accompanied Simms on the writer’s first trip to the
North,[1]
and Simms dedicated his long 1832 narrative poem Atalantis to him, referring to the younger man’s “high moral and
intellectual worth” in his dedicatory note.
The families of the two men had been long acquainted ... |