Simms, Wordsworth, and "the mysterious teachings of the natural world"

From: Southern Quarterly | Date: January 1, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

ALTHOUGH BEST KNOWN even in his own time for his novels, William Gilmore Simms believed that eventually his verse would rank higher than his fiction (Letters 3: 190); today, however, it is virtually ignored. John Hollander's recent Library of America edition of nineteenth-century American poetry includes only two of Simms's poems-"The Lost Pleiad" and "By the Swanannoa"-neither of which approaches his best work. More typically, anthologies of American poetry omit Simms altogether. The exception to this neglect has been the heroic scholarship of James Kibler, who has almost single-handedly ...

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