Southern writing, 1585-1920, edited by Richard Beale Davis, C. Hugh Holman, Louis D. Rubin, Jr
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Southern writing, 1585-1920, edited by Richard Beale Davis, C. Hugh Holman, Louis D. Rubin, Jr
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Southern writing, 1585-1920
Nature of contents
bibliography
Responsibility statement
edited by Richard Beale Davis, C. Hugh Holman, Louis D. Rubin, Jr
Table Of Contents
Among the works contained in this book are: "A new description of that fertile and pleasant province of Carolina" by John Archdale ; William Pratt's account of a Puritan settlement on the Ashley River in the 1690s ; a 1735 essay from the "South Carolina Gazette" ; a 1778 address on American independece by Charlestonian David Ramsay ; an essay on Byron by Hugh Swinton Legaré ; an 1840s essay on a deer hunt by William Elliott ; the poem "I sigh for the land of the cypress and the pine" by Samuel Henry Dickson ; several poems by James Matthewes Legaré ; numerous works by William Gilmore Simms ;Civil War poems and an essay by Henry Timrod ; poems by Paul Hamilton Hayne
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