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Stories and TalesEra of the Early Republic | Short Stories | U of South Carolina P | 1974 Stories and Tales is Volume V of the
University of South Carolina’s Centennial
Edition of the writings of William Gilmore Simms[1]. This volume contains fifteen stories and
tales, chronologically presented, collecting writings from all phases of
Simms’s career. [2] Simms wrote short fiction, often of wildly
inconsistent quality, throughout his long career; his best fiction was praised
by Poe, while his poorer fiction was often self-consciously born out of
economic necessity[3]. Simms published his short fiction widely both
in a variety of periodicals and multiple book-length ... |
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The Letters of William Gilmore Simms. Vol. 1Era of the Early Republic | Correspondence | U of South Carolina P | 1952 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
foster ... |