With this collection of essays, the literary record of one of the first and most important men of letters from the South is finally reevaluated from the critical perspective time provides.
William Gilmore Simms (1806-1870) was a poet, critic, novelist, and correspondent whose accomplishment has long been overshadowed by the events of history. As a leading writer and advocate of the antebellum south, Simms suffered from the mercurial judgments of the established publishing and literary circles of the North. Since his death he has slipped into relative obscurity with the inability or...
With this collection of essays, the literary record of one of the first and most important men of letters from the South is finally reevaluated fro...
The first of William Gilmore Simms's Border Romance series, this is a vividly accurate and entertaining account of two very different societies in frontier Georgia during the height of the gold-rush era.
The first of William Gilmore Simms's Border Romance series, this is a vividly accurate and entertaining account of two very different societies in fro...
Simms (1806-1870) wrote novels and short fiction dealing with pre-colonial and colonial warfare with Native Americans, and with the American frontier. The subject of the novel presented here (with introduction, historical background, and notes) is the Yemassee (or Yamassee) Indians who occupied the coastal areas of South Carolina in the late 1600s
Simms (1806-1870) wrote novels and short fiction dealing with pre-colonial and colonial warfare with Native Americans, and with the American frontier....
Edgar Allan Poe viewed William Gilmore Simms in invention, in vigor, in movement, in the power of exciting interest, and in the artistical arrangement of his themes, as surpassing any of his countrymen. After the Civil War, long years of neglect tarnished Simms s reputation as the central figure in the literature of the Old South, as Jay B. Hubbell described him. However, as John Caldwell Guilds fully demonstrates here, the magnitude of Simms s achievement cannot be denied. Simms produced seventy-two book-length works, including novels, short story collections, poetry, drama, literary...
Edgar Allan Poe viewed William Gilmore Simms in invention, in vigor, in movement, in the power of exciting interest, and in the artistical arrangement...
In this novelette, William Gilmore Simms records one of the awful realities of America's early frontier, that of women trapped in ill-fated marriages. Forced into a union with her lover, Helen Halsey is exploited and victimized in a domestic situation from which there is no release.Utilizing the compression of the short novel form, Simms weaves elaborate plot lines of violence, romance, and intrigue to create a fast-moving, action-packed tale of an America just beginning its search for identity, justice, and spiritual truth. Edgar Allan Poe said of Simms that in invention, in vigor, in...
In this novelette, William Gilmore Simms records one of the awful realities of America's early frontier, that of women trapped in ill-fated marriages....
Delivered as a three-part lecture series in 1854 at the famous Hibernian Society Hall in Charleston, South Carolina, Simms s spirited defense of poetry stands in the nobel line of poetic credos from poets such as Sir Philip Sidney and Percy Bysshe Shelley. It is the only full-length work of its kind in American literature, and it has never before been published.
Seventh in the University of Arkansas Press s Simms Series, Poetry and the Practical is a clear, forceful rebuttal of arguments that would relegate poetry to the margins of life. It proclaims the high calling of poets as...
Delivered as a three-part lecture series in 1854 at the famous Hibernian Society Hall in Charleston, South Carolina, Simms s spirited defense of po...
William Gilmore Simms s (18061870) body of work, a sweeping fictional portrait of the colonial and antebellum South in all its regional diversity, with its literary and intellectual issues, is probably more comprehensive than any other nineteenth-century southern author. Simms s career began with a short novel, Martin Faber, published in 1833. This Gothic tale is reminiscent of James Hogg s Confessions of a Sinner and was written four years before Edgar Allan Poe s William Wilson. Narrated in the first person, it is considered a pioneering examination of criminal psychology. Martin seduces...
William Gilmore Simms s (18061870) body of work, a sweeping fictional portrait of the colonial and antebellum South in all its regional diversity, wit...
