On Southern Poetry Prior To 1860 PDF Download

Excerpt from On Southern Poetry Prior to 1860 The essays of Thomas Nelson Page in his volume on The Old South have been suggestive and helpful, especially the one on Authorship in the South before the War. Professor William P. Trent's William Gilmore Simms (american Men of Letters Series) is an admirable study, in many ways, of ante-bellum literary and political conditions in the South, though Professor Trent's point of view is often not that of the representative Southerner. Both of these works deal with the general literary conditions that prevailed, and ac count for the fact that the amount of pure literature produced in the South was not greater. The best collection of American poetry in existence is with out doubt the Harris Collection in the library of Brown University. Two catalogues of this. Have been published one prepared in 1874 by Mr. C. Fiske Harris, the original owner, and the other in 1886 by Mr. John C. Stockbridge. The latter is fuller in bibliographical details, but omits many titles, particularly of Southern poetry, included by Mr. Harris. Both of these we have freely used in the preparation of a bibliography. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.