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<P>Engaging approaches to the vast output of South Carolina's premier man of letters</P><P>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 <I>Reading William Gilmore Simms,</I> 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.</P><P>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 t

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Author

Hagstette, Todd;Simms, William Gilmore

Publisher

University of South Carolina Press

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9781611177725

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, History, Biography