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SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY Letters The Letters of William Gilmore Simms. Ed. Mary C. Simms Oliphant, Alfred Taylor Odell, and T. C. Duncan Eaves. 5 vols. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1952–1956. The Letters of William Gilmore Simms. Ed. Mary C. Simms Oliphant and T. C. Duncan Eaves. Supplement, Vol. 6. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1982. Modern Collections An Early and Strong Sympathy: The Indian Writings of William Gilmore Simms. Ed. John Caldwell Guilds and Charles Hudson. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2003. Selected Poems of William Gilmore Simms. Ed. James Everett Kibler Jr. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1990. The Simms Reader: Selections from the Writings of William Gilmore Simms. Ed. John Caldwell Guilds, Southern Texts Society. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 2001. Stories and Tales. Ed. John Caldwell Guilds. Vol. 5 of The Writings of William Gilmore Simms, Centennial ed. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1974. Tales of the South by William Gilmore Simms. Ed. Mary Anne Wimsatt. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1996. Biography Guilds, John Caldwell. Simms: A Literary Life. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 1992. Trent, William P. William Gilmore Simms, American Men of Letters Series. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1892. General Criticism Busick, Sean R. A Sober Desire for History: William Gilmore Simms as Historian. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2004. Davidson, Donald. Introduction to Letters of William Gilmore Simms, Vol 1. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1952. See xxxi-clii; early, highly appreciative estimate of Simms’s fiction. Faust, Drew Gilpin. A Sacred Circle: The Dilemma of the Intellectual in the Old South, 1840–1860. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1977. This deals extensively and perceptively with Simms as a Southern intellectual. Gray, Richard. Writing the South: Ideas of an American Region. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986. See “To Speak of Arcadia: William Gilmore Simms and Some Plantation Novelists,” 45–62. Guilds, John Caldwell, ed. “Long Years of Neglect”: The Work and Reputation of William Gilmore Simms. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 1988. Evaluative essays by Guilds, James B. Meriwether, Anne M. Blythe, Linda E. McDaniel, Nicholas G. Meriwether, James E. Kibler Jr., David Moltke-Hansen, Mary Ann Wimsatt, Rayburn S. Moore, Miriam J. Shillingsburg, John McCardell, and Louis D. Rubin Jr. Guilds, John Caldwell, and Caroline Collins, eds. William Gilmore Simms and the American Frontier. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1997. Evaluative essays by Edwin T. Arnold, Jan Baaker, Molly Boyd, Caroline Collins, Gerard Donovan, Nancy Grantham, John C. Guilds, James E. Kibler Jr., Diane C. Luce, Thomas L. McHaney, David Moltke-Hansen, Rayburn Moore, David W. Newton, Sabine Schmidt, Miriam J. Shillingsburg, Eliott West, and Mary Ann Wimsatt. Hubbell, Jay B. The South in American Literature, 1607–1900. [Durham]: Duke University Press, 1954. See the chapter on Simms, 572–602, still one of the best short essays on the author. Kolodny, Annette. The Lay of the Land: Metaphors as Experience and History in American Life and Letters. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1975. See 115–32, perceptive study of Simms’s depiction of landscape. Kreyling, Michael. Figures of the Hero in Southern Narrative. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1987. See “William Gilmore Simms: Writer and Hero,” 30–51. McHaney, Thomas L. “William Gilmore Simms.” In The Chief Glory of Every People: Essays on Classic American Writers, ed. Matthew J. Bruccoli, 173–90. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1973. Parrington, Vernon L. The Romantic Revolution in America, 1800–1860. Vol. 2 of Main Currents in American Thought. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1927. See chapter on Simms, 125–36, an important early assessment of his achievements. Ridgely, J. V. William Gilmore Simms. Twayne’s United States Authors Series. New York: Twayne, 1962. Rubin, Louis D., Jr. The Edge of the Swamp: A Study in the Literature and Society of the Old South. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1989. See “The Dream of the Plantation: Simms, Hammond, Charleston,” 54–102; and “The Romance of the Frontier: Simms, Cooper, and the Wilderness,” 103–26. Shillingsburg, Miriam Jones, ed. Special Issue on William Gilmore Simms in 380 SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY the Southern Quarterly 41, no. 2 (winter 2003). Evaluative essays by Miriam J. Shillingsburg, Scott Romine, David W. Newton, Matthew C. Brennan, Eric Carl Link, Benjamin F. Fisher, Molly Boyd, A. J. Conyers, David Aiken, Erma Ricter, and Paul Christian Jones. Wakelyn, Jon L. The Politics of a Literary Man: William Gilmore Simms. Westport...