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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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The Sources of American IndependenceSpeech | The Town Council of Aiken, SC | 1844
The Sources of
American Independence. An Oration, on the Sixty-Ninth Anniversary of American
Independence was delivered by William Gilmore Simms on 4 July 1844 in
Aiken, SC. As its long title suggests,
the speech was composed to celebrate the sixty-nine years of American
nationhood since the Declaration of Independence; what is unmentioned in the
title but equally relevant to an understanding of this work is the fact that it
was composed essentially as a stump speech[1]
during Simms’s successful 1844 run for a seat in the South Carolina State
Legislature. Giving a speech ... |