Author: Samuel Albert LinkPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
William Gilmore Simms, the Novelist, the Poet
Author: Samuel Albert LinkWilliam Gilmore Simms, the Novelist and Poet
Author: William Gilmore SIMMSThe Simms Reader
Author: William Gilmore SimmsPublisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 9780813920191
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
Long considered a leading literary figure of the Old South, William Gilmore Simms (1806-1870) wrote letters, novels, short fiction, drama, essays, and poetry in his prolific career. Born in Charleston to an old South Carolina family of modest means and raised by a grandmother with whom his father left him after his mother's death, Simms felt a simultaneous sense of loyalty to and alienation from his native region. He was a major intellectual figure on the East Coast before the Civil War but saw his New York publishers abandon him after secession, of which he was a vocal supporter. Simms's novels and poetry have been published in modern editions, and he has been the subject of numerous biographies and critical studies, but until now there has been no collection covering the broad spectrum of his writings. The Simms Reader presents a selection of his nonnovelistic work--letters, short fiction, essays, historical writings, poetry, and epigrams--chosen and introduced by the preeminent Simms scholar John Caldwell Guilds.
Selected poems
Author: William Gilmore SimmsPublisher:
ISBN: 9780820311883
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
William Gilmore Simms
Author: William Peterfield TrentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
The Writings of William Gilmore Simms: Voltmeier; or, The mountain men
Author: William Gilmore SimmsPublisher: Columbia : University of South Carolina Press
ISBN:
Category : American fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 490
Book Description
The Letters of William Gilmore Simms
Author: William Gilmore SimmsPublisher:
ISBN: 9780872490659
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Reading William Gilmore Simms
Author: Todd HagstettePublisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN: 1611177731
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 632
Book Description
Engaging approaches to the vast output of South Carolina's premier man of letters William Gilmore Simms was the best known and certainly the most accomplished writer of the mid-nineteenth-century South. His literary ascent began early, with his first book being published when he was nineteen years old and his reputation as a literary genius secured before he turned thirty. Over a career that spanned nearly forty-five years, he established himself as the American South's premier man of letters—an accomplished poet, novelist, short fiction writer, essayist, historian, dramatist, cultural journalist, biographer, and editor. In Reading William Gilmore Simms, Todd Hagstette has created an anthology of critical introductions to Simms's major publications, including those recently brought back into print by the University of South Carolina Press, offering the first ever primer compendium of the author's vast output. Simms was a Renaissance man of American letters, lauded in his time by both popular audiences and literary icons alike. Yet the author's extensive output, which includes nearly eighty published volumes, can be a barrier to his study. To create a gateway to reading and studying Simms, Hagstette has assembled thirty-eight essays by twenty-four scholars to review fifty-five Simms works. Addressing all the author's major works, the essays provide introductory information and scholarly analysis of the most crucial features of Simms's literary achievement. Arranged alphabetically by title for easy access, the book also features a topical index for more targeted inquiry into Simms's canon. Detailing the great variety and astonishing consistency of Simms's thought throughout his long career as well as examining his posthumous reconsideration, Reading William Gilmore Simms bridges the author's genius and readers' growing curiosity. The only work of its kind, this book provides an essential passport to the far-flung worlds of Simms's fecund imagination.
Long Years of Neglect: the Work and Reputation of William Gilmore Simms (c)
Author: John Caldwell GuildsPublisher: University of Arkansas Press
ISBN: 9781610752480
Category : Historical fiction, American
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Honorable and Brilliant Labors: Orations of William Gilmore SIMMs
Author: John D. MillerPublisher: William Gilmore SIMMs Initiati
ISBN: 9781643364834
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A primary source collection that offers a window into the mind of nineteenth century author and public intellectual, William Gilmore Simms. William Gilmore Simms was in his lifetime considered the South's preeminent man of letters, and Edgar Allen Poe once claimed that Simms was "immeasurably the greatest writer of fiction in America." Best known as a poet, novelist, and editor, Simms was also a public intellectual who intended that his work shape public opinion and public discourse. In Honorable and Brilliant Labors, editor John D. Miller collects Simms's public orations, a body of literature that ranks among the least studied of Simms's writing. The orations are divided into four thematic parts, each with its own introduction that frames the orations in their historical and cultural context. As a collection, these pieces reveal the voice of a literary artist attempting to define and make sense of his own society. Honorable and Brilliant Labors is the final volume of the Simms Initiatives, a collaboration between USC Press and USC Libraries that spans more than a decade of publishing and includes six scholarly volumes and more than sixty reprint editions.