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The Cassique of Kiawah: A Colonial RomanceBritish Colonial History | Novel (Romance) | Redfield | 1859 The Cassique of Kiawah, thought by many critics of
Simms’s own time and several modern scholars to be the author’s best work, is a
colonial romance about the early days of Charleston. Setting the book in
the 1680s, Simms robustly describes the competing claims of the English and
Spanish over Charleston and its environs, including the attendant violence and
actions of Spanish pirates and English privateers. In so doing, he
presents a vision of Charleston that was not genteel and sophisticated, but
rather raucous and frontier-like; Simms thus usedThe Cassique of Kiawah to
critique ... |
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Poems: Descriptive, Dramatic, Legendary and ContemplativeAntebellum Period | Poetry | Redfield | 1853 William Gilmore Simms’s ultimate ambition for his
collected poetical works titled Poems:
Descriptive, Dramatic, Legendary, and Contemplative was limited to
posterity. Unlike most of his literary
efforts, it was not a money-making operation.
He wrote his friend B.F. Perry in January 1852, “my hope &
expectation are not profit. I seek only to put myself fully on record
for the future.” Remarkably, Simms
went on to explain this bid for future acclaim: “I regard my career as pretty well over, and
wish now to revise and make myself as worthy as possible in the eyes ... |