William Gilmore Simms
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William Gillmore Simms (Charleston, Carolina del Sud, 1806-1870) Escriptor sudista. Orfe de petit, va fer diversos oficis, i el 1827 es doctor?? en lleis, per?? ho deix?? per la literatura. Escriv?? els poemes Lyrical and Other Poems and Early Lays (1827), Tile Vision of Cones, Cain, and Other Poems (1829), The Tricolor, or Three Days of Blood in Paris (1830), Atlantis, a story of the sea (1832) i les novel??les Martin Faber, the Story of a Criminal (1833), The Yemassee (1835), The Lily and the Totem, or, The Huguenots in Florida (1850), Vasconselos (1853), The Cassique of Kiawah (1859). Partisan (1835), Katherine Walton (1851), Mellichampe (1836), The Kinsmen (1841), The Forayers (1855), Eutaw (1856), i Joscelyn (1867). Per?? la m??s famosa fou The Sword and the Distaff (1852), un alegat a favor de l???esclavatge. Fou diputat per Alabama i durant la guerra don?? suport la Confederaci??.
[edita] Enlla??
- Ressenya enciclop??dica
- 1911 Britannica.
- Caroline Lee Hentz's Long Journey de Philip D. Beidler Alabama Heritage n??m. 75, Winter 2005
- An Overview of Southern Literature by Genre de Lucinda MacKethan Southern Spaces Feb. 2004.
