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Poetry and the PracticalAntebellum Period | Speech | The University of Arkansas Press | 1996 Poetry and the Practical was published
in 1996 by The University of Arkansas Press as part of The Simms Series. Edited with an introduction and notes by
James Everett Kibler Jr., the book contains a lecture written by Simms between
the years of 1851-54, which expanded from one to three parts. Kibler summarizes the lecture as “a clear,
forceful, inspired defense of poetry against those who would relegate it to the
margins of life.”[1] In a 12 November 1850 letter to Evert Augustus
Duyckinck, Simms made first mention of the lecture: “I recieve [sic] another application for a public
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The Letters of William Gilmore Simms. Vol. 6, SupplementAntebellum Period | Correspondence | U of South Carolina P | 2012 In his lifetime, William Gilmore Simms “was the author of thirty-four works of fiction,
nineteen volumes of poetry, three of drama, three anthologies, three volumes of
history, two of geography, six of biography, and twelve of reviews,
miscellanies and addresses, a total of eighty-two volumes.”[1] The estimate of the output was impressive, if not quite complete.[2] Regardless, Simms’s influence was unparalleled. No
mid-nineteenth-century writer and editor did more to frame white southern
self-identity and nationalism, shape southern historical consciousness, or
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