William Gilmore Simms (1806–1870)
Autor de The Yemassee
Sobre El Autor
William Gilmore Simms was born in Charleston, South Carolina, April, 17 1806. His academic education was received in the school of his native city, where he was for a time a clerk in a drug and chemical house. Though his first aspirations were for medicine, he studied law at eighteen, but never mostrar más practised. In 1827, he published in Charleston a volume of Lyrical and other Poems, his first attempt in literature. The following year, he became editor and partial owner of the Charleston City Gazette. In 1829 he published another volume of poems, The Vision of Cortes, and in 1830, The Tricolor. His paper proved a bad investment, and through its failure, in 1833, he was left penniless. Simms decided to devote himself to literature, and began a long series of volumes which did not end till within three years of his death.He published a poem entitled "Atalantis, a Tale of the Sea" (New York, 1832), the best and longest of all his poetic works. The Yemassee is considered his best novel, but Simms is mainly known as a writer of fiction, the scene of his novels is almost wholly southern. He was for many years a member of the legislature, and in 1846 was defeated for lieutenant-governor by only one vote. Simmd died in Charleston on June, 11 1870 (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
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Series
Obras de William Gilmore Simms
Woodcraft : [or, Hawks about the dovecote] : with introduction and explanatory notes (1961) 13 copias
The partisan: With introduction and explanatory notes (The Revolutionary War novels of William Gilmore Simms ; 2) (1968) 12 copias
An Early and Strong Sympathy: The Indian Writings of William Gilmore Simms (2003) — Autor — 10 copias
A supplement to the plays of William Shakespeare: comprising the seven dramas, which have been ascribed to his pen, but… (1855) 3 copias
The Letters of William Gilmore Simms: Volume VI, 1834-1870 (Project of the SIMMs Initiatives) (2011-07-31) (1832) 3 copias
The Simms Reader: Selections from the Writings of William Gilmore Simms (Southern Texts Society) (2001) 3 copias
Backwoods tales : Paddy McGann, Sharp Snaffles, and Bill Bauldy : selected fiction of William Gilmore Simms (2010) 2 copias
Eutaw: A Sequel To The Forayers; Or The Raid Of The Dog-Days: A Tale Of The Revolution (1890) (2007) 2 copias
Atalantis: A Story of the Sea 2 copias
"The Angel and the City" 1 copia
The Golden Christmas 1 copia
“The Edge of the Swamp” 1 copia
Views and reviews in American literature, history and fiction. First and second series (2013) 1 copia
Selections from the Letters and Speeches of the Hon. James H. Hammond (A Project of the Simms Initiatives) (2015) 1 copia
The Writings of William Gilmore Simms: Stories and Tales (Centennial Edition of the Writings of William Gilmore Simms,… (1974) 1 copia
Obras relacionadas
American Literature: The Makers and the Making (In Two Volumes) (1973) — Contribuidor, algunas ediciones — 25 copias
Great American Ghost Stories: Chilling Tales by Poe, Bierce, Hawthorne and Others (2008) — Contribuidor — 10 copias
Representative American Short Stories — Contribuidor — 5 copias
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1806-04-17
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 1870-06-11
- Lugar de sepultura
- Magnolia Cemetery, Charleston, South Carolina, USA
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Charleston, South Carolina, USA
- Lugar de fallecimiento
- Charleston, South Carolina, USA
- Lugares de residencia
- Charleston, South Carolina, USA
- Ocupaciones
- poet
historian
novelist
representative (South Carolina)
editor
short-story writer (mostrar todos 7)
biographer - Organizaciones
- South Carolina Legislature
St. Cecilia Society - Premios y honores
- Honorary LL.D, University of Alabama
Statue in Battery Park, Charleston, South Carolina
Miembros
Reseñas
Listas
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Estadísticas
- Obras
- 70
- También por
- 10
- Miembros
- 378
- Popularidad
- #63,851
- Valoración
- 3.9
- Reseñas
- 6
- ISBNs
- 159
- Idiomas
- 1
Simms was a slave-owning South Carolinian and staunch secessionist and as a result his work (which included a novel rebutting Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin) fell down "memory hole" after the Civil War.… (más)