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Writing War and Reunion - Selected Civil War and Reconstruction Newspaper Editorials by William Gilmore Simms (Hardcover)
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Writing War and Reunion - Selected Civil War and Reconstruction Newspaper Editorials by William Gilmore Simms (Hardcover)
Series: William Gilmore Simms Initiatives
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William Gilmore Simms (1806-1870) was a novelist, poet, and
essayist and was considered the South's premier literary figure at
the height of his popularity. No less an authority than Edgar Allen
Poe remarked of Simms that "he has surpassed, we think, any of his
countrymen" as a novelist. Simms's literary achievements include
more than twenty major novels, several volumes of poetry, and
biographies of important figures in American history. Perhaps the
least considered parts of Simms's overall body of writings are
those he did for newspapers, the most interesting of which are from
the era of the Civil War and Reconstruction. Writing War and
Reunion offers a selection of the best of those so that we can
track Simms's thoughts about, and reactions to, the conflict, from
its beginnings through to its conclusion and into the early years
of Reconstruction. These works provide a valuable insight into how
a prominent southern intellectual interpreted and participated in
these momentous events in U.S. history. In the decades following
the Civil War, Simms's reputation suffered a steady decline.
Because of his associations with the antebellum South, slavery, and
Confederate defeat, as well as changes in literary tastes, Simms
came to be regarded as a talented but failed Southern author of a
bygone era. Today a robust scholarly literature exists that has
reexamined Simms, his literary works, and previous scholarly
judgments and finds him to have been an important figure in the
development of nineteenth-century American literature and worthy of
serious study.
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