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Poetry And The Practical

by William Gilmore Simms

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 <div> <p>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.</p> <p>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 spokesmen and romantic visionaries, underscoring their mission to reveal truth and passion, mind and heart and to transcend the limiting bounds of the empirical. In proving poetry’s utility and worth, Simms uses all the tools of persuasion open to him: his wide reading, his considerable knowledge of the history of culture and civilizations, his understanding of the values of place and tradition, and, above all, an oratorical eloquence, which allows his words to leave the page in a rush of inspiration.</p> <p>These lectures, which still retain their identity as scripts prepared and punctuated for performance, provide profound insight into Simms the poet and into the effects of industrialization, the southern sensibility, and the influence of European thought on southern literature at a critical point in that literature’s development.</p> </div>
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Forayers - Or The Raid Of The Dog Days

by William Gilmore Simms

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 Historical novelist William Gilmore Simms first published <i>The Forayers</i> in 1855 at the peak of his reputation and ability. Simms had set out to create a prose epic through a series of linked novels detailing American history and struggles from early colonization to the mid-nineteenth century. <i>The Forayers</i>, which was the sixth book in his series of eight Revolutionary War novels set in the South, describes events around Orangeburg, South Carolina, before the Battle of Eutaw Springs (itself covered in this novel’s sequel, <i>Eutaw</i>). It features such characters as Hell-fire Dick, a hardhearted, foul-mouthed looter under Tory protection. Simms hoped his readers would find this book "a bold, brave, masculine story; frank, ardent, vigorous; faithful to humanity." He described it to a friend as "fresh and original" and wrote that "the characterization [is] as truthful as forcible. It is at once a novel of society & a romance."
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Cassique Of Kiawah - A Colonial Romance

by William Gilmore Simms

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 <div>First drafted as a novel called Oyster Point when the author was only eighteen, The Cassique of Kiawah was finally published thirty-five years later, in 1859, at the height of William Gilmore Simms’s career. It is a history through fiction of early Charleston, South Carolina, and completed Simms’s series of Revolutionary War novels. Through satire and realism he portrays the charm and the corruption of late seventeenth-century Charleston society, and he contrasts the quiet majesty of the wilderness with the violence of man. The book was widely reviewed and highly praised, and it confirmed Simms’s position as the nation’s best-known novelist.</div>
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Eutaw - A Sequel To The Forayers, Or The Raid Of The Dog Days

by William Gilmore Simms

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 A sequel to 1855 novel, "The Forayers", this novel covers comprehensive saga of the war in our literary history. It focuses on the battle of Eutaw Springs in 1781, which ended British domination of South Carolina. It includes a critical introduction by the editor and a Simms chronology, as well as appendices dealing with textual matters.
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Wigwam And The Cabin - The Arkansas Edition

by John Caldwell Guilds e William G. Simms

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 <div>One of the most important volumes of short fiction published before the Civil War. The Wigwam and the Cabin represents William Gilmore Simms at his very best. It is the work that led Poe to say of Simms, ". . . in invention, in vigor, in movement, in the power of exciting interest, and in the artistical management of his themes, he has surpassed, we think, any of his countrymen." Praised by critics on both sides of the Atlantic, The Wigwam and the Cabin focuses n the Southern frontier that Simms knew so well, a frontier whose vernacular, courage, humor, folklore, violence, injustice, and beauty are vividly brought to life through the strokes of his pen. "I have seen the life," Simms wrote, "—have lived it—and much of my material . . . is the planter, the squatter, the Indian, the negro—the bold and hardy pioneer, the vigorous yeomen—these are the subjects." Simms''s portrayal of frontier life is the most realistic and graphic in all nineteenth-century American literature; and the Arkansas edition of The Wigwam and the Cabin, with Dr. Guilds''s fine editing and informative introductin, brings back into print an invaluable contribution to the development of the short story in America.</div>
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Vasconselos - A Romance Of The New World

by William Gilmore Simms

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 Presents a fictionalized account of one of the first European efforts to settle the land that would become the United States, the Hernando de Soto expedition of 1539. Set as the explorers prepare to embark, the work explores such themes as the marginalization of minorities and the tendency of absolute power to corrupt absolutely.
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Partisan - A Romance Of Revolution

by William Gilmore Simms

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 The writings of William Gilmore Simms provide a sweeping fictional portrait of the colonial and antebellum South in all of its regional diversity. This is first book to explore Simmsâ€™s Revolutionary War romances.
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Martin Faber - The Story Of A Criminal With "Confessions Of A Murder"

by William Gilmore Simms

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 <div>William Gilmore Simms’s (1806-1870) 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 then murders Emily so that he might marry another woman, Constance. Martin confesses to his friend and is killed after attempting to stab Constance when she visits him in jail. The book was immediately successful and was well received by the northern media, thus starting Simms’s successful career as a writer, one that would rank him as the only major southern literary figure besides Poe before the Civil War. As with other volumes in the Arkansas Edition of Simms’s work, this volume includes a critical introduction by the editor and a Simms chronology, as well as appendices dealing with textual matters. This edition also includes Simms’s 1829 story, "Confessions of a Murderer," which was the germ for his first book of fiction.</div>
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Backwoods Tales - Paddy Mcgann, Sharp Snaffles, And Bill Bauldy

by William Gilmore Simms

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 Includes three tales - ""Paddy McGann"", ""Sharp Snaffles"", and ""Bill Bauldy"" - that belong in the tradition of Southern backwoods humor, a genre that flourished before the Civil War and produced classic tales by such authors as George Washington Harris, Johnson Jones Hooper, and Thomas Bangs Thorpe.
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Straight Writes And Jabs - An Inside Look At Another Year In Boxing

by Thomas Hauser

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 The latest in Thomas Hauser's annual collections of articles on boxing. It brings readers into the dressing room with elite champions in the moments before some of 2012's biggest fights. Hauser's award-winning investigative journalism is on display in a groundbreaking expose of the use of performance-enhancing drugs.
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Vasconselos - A Romance Of The New World

by William Gilmore Simms

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 Presents a fictionalized account of one of the first European efforts to settle the land that would become the United States, the Hernando de Soto expedition of 1539. Set as the explorers prepare to embark, the work explores such themes as the marginalization of minorities and the tendency of absolute power to corrupt absolutely.

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