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Dr. Hampton M. Jarrell Address on William Gilmore Simms - Accession 1327 - M662 (716)
No full textThis collection consists of two copies of a booklet titled William Gilmore Simms: A Radio Address Over WBT, Charlotte, N.C., March 30, 1934, in the Series of the South Carolina Economic Association, Being Fifty-ninth Consecutive Weekly Broadcast in Educational Series by Dr. Hampton M. Jarrell of Winthrop College. William Gilmore Simms (April 17, 1806-June 11, 1870) was a poet, novelist and historian from the American South. Hampton McNeely Jarrell (1904-1980) was a professor of English at Winthrop College from 1932-1969.https://digitalcommons.winthrop.edu/manuscriptcollection_findingaids/2148/thumbnail.jp
The Sense of the Beautiful- An Address Delivered by W. Gilmore Simms, Before the Charleston County Agricultural and Horticultural Association - Accession 1315 - M652 (706)
No full textThis collection consists of an address titled, The Sense of the Beautiful- An Address Delivered by W. Gilmore Simms, Before the Charleston County Agricultural and Horticultural Association (Now the Agricultural Society of South Carolina) May 3, 1870 by William Gilmore Simms (1806-1870). In his address Simms discusses: “The uses and the beauties of all things in Nature exist chiefly in our susceptibilities. It is in the degree in which we can find the use and appreciate the beauty, that the one is valued as of profit, the other as of pleasure.” The author focuses on beauty in depth, and describes beauty as a joy forever.https://digitalcommons.winthrop.edu/manuscriptcollection_findingaids/2130/thumbnail.jp
The geography of South Carolina : being a companion to the history of that state by William Gilmore Simms : compiled from the latest and best authorities, and designed for the instruction of the young.
No full textWilliam Gilmore Simms wrote The Geography of South Carolina as an accompaniment work for his History of South Carolina. The book covers the physical and natural aspects of the state of South Carolina. Simms also adds historical and cultural items to each of his entries. At the end of the book, Simms includes questions on the geography for teachers to use in their classes. Please see the attached scan of the Contents page and the Preface.https://digitalcommons.winthrop.edu/rarebooks/1177/thumbnail.jp
[Letter] 1867 January 10, Charleston (SC) [to] Easton Southern Society / W. Gilmore Simms [William Gilmore Simms].
No full textSimms writes to address a misunderstanding that has arisen between him and his publisher regarding his contributions of serial fiction. He expresses that he "very much regret[s] that there should be any difference between us" in this matter, and reviews the initial agreement in which he was to be paid 100 to settle the accounts between them. Simms was a prolific Southern writer who published poetry, essays, biographies, and articles, and novels including _The Yemassee. A Romance of Carolina_ published in 1835
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A Study of the Revolutionary War Novels of William Gilmore Simms
No full textThis thesis is a study of William Gilmore Simms' novels that deal with the Revolutionary War
Lily and the Totem, or, The Hugenots in Florida, A Series of Sketches, picturesque and Historical, of the Colonies of Coligni, in North America. 1562-1570. By the author of "The Yemassee"
No full textSimms, William Gilmore (1806-1870). The Lily and the Totem, or, The Hugenots in Florida, a series of sketches, pictureque and historical, of the colonies of Coligni, in North American. 1562-1570. By the author of "The Yemassee." New York: Baker and Scribner, 1850 First edition PS2848 L5 185
William Gilmore Simms's Selected Reviews on Literature and Civilization
No full textMoltke-Hansen's introduction to part two examines Simms's roles in, and responses to, the Romantic critical revolution and the other revolutions then roiling Europe and America.Cover -- William Gilmore Simms's Selected Reviews on Literature and Civilization -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on the Text, or, the Devil and Noah Webster -- Introduction: The Man of Letters as Critic -- Part 1: Literature -- Literature's Long View -- Reviews -- Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton's The Disowned and Pelham (February 1829) -- James E. Heath's Edge Hill -- or, the Family of the Fitzroyals, a Novel (1 June 1829) -- James Hogg's The Shepherd's Calendar (15 June 1829) -- Charles R. Carroll's Address Delivered Before the Society of Friends of Ireland (1 July 1829) -- William Ellery Channing (October 1842) -- John Greenleaf Whittier's Poems (October 1843) -- G. P. R. James's Arabella Stuart (May 1844) -- Frances Anne Kemble Butler's Poems (August 1844) -- Literature in Ancient Rome (January 1845) -- Catharine Maria Sedgwick's Home (June 1845) -- Jean Paul Frederich Richter's Flower, Fruit and Thorn Pieces. Volumes 1 and 2 (June and September 1845) -- Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton's Translation of The Poems and Ballads of Johann Schiller (August 1845) -- Benjamin D'Israeli's Sybil, or the Two Nations (October 1845) -- Poe's Poetry (November 1845) -- Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Laneton Parsonage (April 1849) -- John Motley's Merry Mount -- a Romance of the Massachusetts Colony (April 1849) -- J. T. Headley's The Adirondack -- or Life in the Woods (October 1849) -- James Russell Lowell's A Fable for Critics (October 1849) -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's Kavanagh (October 1849) -- William Cowper's Poems (October 1849) -- New Novels (April 1850) -- Sir Thomas Carlyle's Latter-Day Pamphlets (July 1850) -- Henry William Herbert's Frank Forester's Fish and Fishing of the United States (July 1850) -- The Life and Letters of Thomas Campbell (September 1850) -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's Poems (September 1850)Robert Browning's Poems (September 1850) -- Alfred Lord Tennyson's In Memoriam (November 1850) -- William Wordsworth's The Prelude, or Growth of a Poet's Mind (November 1850) -- Nathaniel Hawthorne's The House of the Seven Gables (July 1851) -- Christopher Wordsworth's Memoirs of William Wordsworth (July 1851) -- Margaret Fuller's Memoirs (1852) -- Herman Melville's Moby-Dick (January 1852) -- Herman Melville's Pierre, or the Ambiguities (October 1852) -- Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Blithedale Romance (October 1852) -- J. V. Huntington's The Forest (January 1853) -- Charles Dickens' Bleak House (January 1854) -- Mrs. Elizabeth Gaskell's Cranford (January 1854) -- Anthons's Manual of Greek Literature (April 1854) -- Thomas Campbell's Specimens of the British Poets (April 1854) -- Thomas De Quincey's Writings (April 1854) -- Charles Kingsley's Hypatia (April 1854) -- Hudson Gurney's Translation of The Works of Apuleius (July 1854) -- Caroline Lee Hentz's The Planter's Northern Bride (July 1854) -- Phoebe Carey's Poems and Parodies (July 1854) -- The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope (July 1854) -- Henry David Thoreau's Walden (8 February 1855) -- Our Literary Docket-New Publications: William Cullen Bryant and Lady Morgan (20 May 1859) -- Our Literary Docket-Novelists, George Eliot, James Hungerford, and Charlotte Mary Yonge (31 May 1859) -- Our Literary Docket-Lord John Campbell's Shakspeare (3 June 1859) -- Our Literary Docket-Charles Lever's Gerald Fitzgerald, the Chevalier (21 June 1859) -- Our Literary Docket-Anthony Trollope's The Bertrams and Doctor Thorne (22 June 1859) -- Our Literary Docket-Bartholomew Rivers Carroll Jr., Hayne, and Timrod (9 August 1859) -- Our Literary Docket-Allen Hampden's Hartley Norman (20 August 1859) -- James Clarence Mangan's Poems (16 February 1860) -- Current Irish Literature from Haverty (2 October 1860)Martin Farquhar Tupper's Poetical Works (24 February 1866) -- Leigh Hunt's The Book of the Sonnet (5 April 1867) -- John William De Forest's Miss Ravenel's Conversion from Secession to Loyalty (4 June 1867) -- John Conington's Æneid (29 June 1867) -- The Late Henry Timrod (19 October 1867) -- Charles Warren Stoddard's Poems (9 November 1867) -- Putnam's Magazine (22 January 1870) -- Part II: Civilization -- A Critical Revolution and a Revolutionary Critic -- Review Essays -- François Guizot, Democracy in France (April 1849) -- Tuckerman's Essays and Essayists (July 1850) -- Ellet's Women of the Revolution (July 1850) -- The Southern Convention (September 1850) -- Works Cited -- IndexMoltke-Hansen's introduction to part two examines Simms's roles in, and responses to, the Romantic critical revolution and the other revolutions then roiling Europe and America.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. 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William Gilmore Simms, Castle Dismal, and "Rawlins' Rookery"
No full textResearch of William Gilmore Simms, with Dr. John McCardell,Dept. of History, Sewanee,TNFund for Innovative Teaching Internship Fund,with Dr. John McCardell,Dept. of Histor
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