War Poetry Of The South Edited By William Gilmore Simms

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Hath not the morning dawned with added light? And shall not evening--call another starOut of the infinite regions of the night, To mark this day in Heaven? At last, we areA nation among nations; and the worldShall soon behold in many a distant portAnother flag unfurled!Now, come what may, whose favor need we court? And, under God, whose thunder need we fear?Thank Him who placed us hereBeneath so kind a sky--the very sunTakes part with us; and on our errands runAll breezes of the ocean; dew and rain Do noiseless battle for us; and the Year, And all the gentle daughters in her train, March in our ranks, and in our service wieldLong spears of golden grain!A yellow blossom as her fairy shield, June fling's her azure banner to the wind, While in the order of their birthHer sisters pass; and many an ample fieldGrows white beneath their steps, till now, beholdIts endless sheets unfoldTHE SNOW OF SOUTHERN SUMMERS! Let the earthRejoice! beneath those fleeces soft and warmOur happy land shall sleepIn a repose as deep

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William Gilmore Simms's Unfinished Civil War measures the effects of the Civil War and its aftermath on one of the Old South's foremost intellectuals. Simms's mid-nineteenth-century poems, novels, and essays and the personal and societal trauma and destruction Simms experienced are all portrayed here. Before the war Simms was the most articulate advocate of Southern nationalism. During the war he became a prophetic critic of Confederate policy and poet of cultural ethnogenesis. The defeat of the Confederacy in 1865 shattered Simms's understanding of the working of history and called into question his sense of a moral providence. This collection of essays by historians and literary scholars first explores William Gilmore Simms's antebellum treatment of the role of warfare in America's past and the South's future. The contributors then consider the impact of the secession crisis, the Civil War, and the Confederate defeat on Simms's and other white and black Southerners' perceptions of their much-changed world. Next Simms's life, published writings, and thoughts during the war and its aftermath are examined. Finally Simms's late poetry and fictions, especially explicit and implicit commentaries on the postwar South, are analyzed. His last oration, The Sense of the Beautiful, published shortly before his death in 1870, is the subject of several essays. William Gilmore Simms's Unfinished Civil War reconstructs from both published writings and private letters the conscious and unconscious effects of the Civil War upon the writer and Southern patriot. Drawing on the fields of history, literature, and even archaeology, this interdisciplinary volume demonstrates that the anticipation, course, and consequences of the war were central in shaping Simms's writings from the 1840s to 1870.