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Ispands2819: Stagnation is something worse than death. It is corruption also.,William Gilmore Simms,getting, going,
robdix: "Economists put decimal points in their forecasts to show they have a sense of humor."
– William Gilmore Simms
aovmz: “The only true source of politeness is consideration.” ― William Gilmore Simms.
JohnMcDonald15: William Gilmore Simms (1806-1870)
Poe considered him the greatest American novelist. Many others think he is a major literary figure.
I haven't read a line of his works. I probably should, but he was strongly pro-slavery in his fiction and his other works. Whenever I think...
JohnMcDonald15: is ongoing, that I am still an part of it, carrying on the work against oppression in a small way.
Picture of William Gilmore Simms and a house belonging to my ancestors used extensively as a stop on the Underground Railway.
tvc48: Tiger's Meat: William Gilmore Simms and the History of the Revolution
yoopermomma: “Many of the formerly wealthy and influential Southern gentry resigned themselves to genteel poverty and went quietly to the grave. William Gilmore Simms, however, was not a quiet man. Nor was he the father of quiet children.”
yoopermomma: War Poetry of the South
“Like many, William Gilmore Simms had expected bloodshed to be limited to the battlefields. After the bombardment began, and he observed the abuses of old men, women, and children, as well as the destruction of personal and church property.”
yoopermomma: “If Radical Reconstruction was a continuation of the Civil War beyond the 1865 surrenders and parades, War Poetry of the South (New York: Richardson & Company, 1867), edited by William Gilmore Simms in 1866, was more a second
call to battle than it was a capitulation.”
Chase_Steely: 1/3 William Gilmore Simms describes the arrangement for a duel between William R. Taber, Jr., and Edward Magrath. The distance to be ten paces or thirty feet, the weapons pistols held muzzle down, the place the Race Course, the time half past four PM Monday afternoon the 29th.
_TeamNimrit_: NIMRIT YOU ROCK
I believe that economists put decimal points in their forecasts to show they have a sense of humor.:-William Gilmore Simms..
Chase_Steely: William Gilmore Simms became editor of The Magnolia in 1842.
Chase_Steely: Published an old William Gilmore Simms piece, wherein he is found standing over the North American Review clutching its freshly sundered scalp.
This “North American Review” is a neat contrivance for teaching North America by means of New England.
McClellanOsc: "I believe that economists put decimal points in their forecasts to show they have a sense of humor."
William Gilmore Simms
NoJesuitTricks: A little light reading this evening.
Dr. Kibler is probably best known for his work on southern poet William Gilmore Simms and William Faulkner, but this volume is a real gem. It should be more widely read and appreciated than it is.
AmLit_ALA: ALA 2023 CFP from the William Gilmore Simms Society now posted! See CFP at
DemonFive: Is the new logo more reproducible? Yes. But what it gains in commercial viability it sacrifices in character -- the essential personality that says "ISIS." William Gilmore Simms wrote in 1832 th
LawyerSouthern: "Simms had in mind the hubris of the North as it engaged in intensified economic, political, and cultural aggression against the South, but his remarks are timeless."
William Gilmore Simms on the Fate of Nations
ChisomIzu: The conditions of conquest are always easy. We have but to toil awhile endure awhile believe always and never turn back. - William Gilmore Simms
Geo_Politiks: CELEBRITY ELECTIONS 3:
Whigs nominate Nathaniel Hawthorne & Horace Greeley for President, while Dems renominate Edgar Allan Poe & VP William Gilmore Simms. Tensions are higher than ever as CA was admitted & the Compromise of 1850 was passed. Who wins in this election?
ATypicalOne2: Genius is the very eye of intellect and the wing of thought; it is always in advance of its time, and is the pioneer for the generation which it precedes.
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copesint: “What can I say when I hear that a William Gilmore Simms monument is being dismantled in Ohio? I just keep quiet and feel penitent,” writes Confederate farmer Jefferson Davis.
BestQuote85: I believe that economists put decimal points in their forecasts to show they have a sense of humor.
-William Gilmore Simms
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TheSubtleNotes: Apparently this was one of William Gilmore Simms' most popular novels. It's set in South Carolina.
Is there something I should know about South Carolina and vampires?
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ChisomIzu: The conditions of conquest are always easy. We have but to toil awhile endure awhile believe always and never turn back. - William Gilmore Simms
ritholtz: "I believe that economists put decimal points in their forecasts to show they have a sense of humor."
-William Gilmore Simms
LightcliffeL: Lightcliffe quote of the day.
The only true source of politeness is consideration.
William Gilmore Simms
jacktshannon: "Tact is one of the first of mental virtues, the absence of which is frequently fatal to the best of talents. Without denying that it is a talent of itself, it will suffice if we admit that it supplies the place of many talents."
~ William Gilmore Simms
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ChisomIzu: The conditions of conquest are always easy. We have but to toil awhile endure awhile believe always and never turn back. - William Gilmore Simms
pbtide: Brown Water - Fueling great Southern lit since William Gilmore Simms. Doing my part to keep the tradition alive….
Chase_Steely: "The Burning of Columbia is an interactive map and timeline of the destruction of South Carolina's capital city in the waning days of the Civil War. Based on two sources: William Gilmore Simms's Sack and Destruction of the City of Columbia, S.C and ..."
Chase_Steely: These ASMR videos get rather specific. A few that need to be made:
Southern Soldier in a tent writing a letter to his wife as it rains with faint artillery sounds.
William Gilmore Simms writing at Woodlands.
Your watching Faulkner scribble words on the wall at Rowan Oak.
sriankursri: "The dread of criticism is the death of genius." - William Gilmore Simms
si_npg: Unidentified Artist, William Gilmore Simms
ChisomIzu: The conditions of conquest are always easy. We have but to toil awhile endure awhile believe always and never turn back. - William Gilmore Simms
MarshaWietecha: The word today is Dread. “The changes we Dread most may contain our salvation.” Barbara Kingsolver. “I Dread the things I don’t have an imagination for.” Priya Sharma. “The Dread of criticism is the death of genius.” William Gilmore Simms. “Innocence has nothing to Dread.”
LiteraryRob: William Gilmore Simms, slowly dying, writes a poem for the opening of a new theater in Charleston, December 1, 1869 -
shelleyscholar: Shelleyan 36 William Gilmore Simms (1806-70) was another curious Southern Shelleyan. His verse echoes The Revolt of Islam. There is the incident and Spenserian stanzas of'The Slain Eagle', & 'Atlantis' offers a 'Leon' instead of Laon. Sadly, PBS's politics did not enlighten Simms
Chase_Steely: Poe often cited William Gilmore Simms as a man neglected by the critics and complained that if Simms had been a Yankee "this genius would have been rendered immediately manifest to his countrymen, but unhappily (perhaps) he was a Southerner"
Chase_Steely: We just received this sweet monthly featuring a letter from William Gilmore Simms on Southern Literature, also, there was another burglary.
The Charleston Mercury - Mar 11, 1841
GilstrapJared: "The dread of criticism is the death of genius." --William Gilmore Simms
LiteraryRob: Illustrating their feelings, sentiments, ideas, and opinions: William Gilmore Simms and his compilation of "War Poetry of the South," September 8, 1866 --
fluencymark: Hoo boy. Let me say that I am a serious student (is that an OK word?) of Griffith and don’t get all worked up about…you know, any more than I do when I read pre-bellum Southern novels (William Gilmore Simms, etc). All history to me, don’t feel required to endorse or condemn.
LiteraryRob: If his criticisms are now & then profound & suggestive, they are more frequently distinguished by principles partial & one-sided; nay! sometimes absolutely puerile!
Paul Hamilton Hayne's private thoughts on William Gilmore Simms, August 15, 1864 --
si_npg: Unidentified Artist, William Gilmore Simms
hasudi: "The only true source of politeness is consideration."
~William Gilmore Simms~
Chase_Steely: "Welcome to one of the largest single author collections on the web, the William Gilmore Simms Digital Edition."
Chase_Steely: Poe's Battle With Puritan Boston by James Keibler is such a good lecture. His lecture on William Gilmore Simms, W. G. Simms and the Celtic Base of Southern Culture, is also a great listen.
JoshBranscomb: Of all of us, in the end, it could be said what the writer William Gilmore Simms’ epitaph said, “that he had “left all his better works undone”” (George Tindall).
Fortunately, Christ left no good works undone. “It is finished” was true.
And Christ’s record is truly our record.
MarkKohut: And William Gilmore Simms low country of South Carolina novel Yemassee, even harder to feel maybe if you are not from that or any low country.
IvyTivania: William Gilmore Simms: "Tears are the natural penalties of pleasure. It is a law that we"
LiteraryRob: He suffers, and he feels the pang: On the death of William Gilmore Simms, June 11, 1870, and his "Sonnet—Resignation" --
ISH1san: The harshest criticism may be the best words you ever hear. Eric Yuan
If you're open for praise, you have to be open to criticism. Donovan Bailey
The dread of criticism is the death of genius. William Gilmore Simms
LiteraryRob: Its true object is the security of the individual man: William Gilmore Simms writes an open letter in support of copyright protections for American authors, May 21, 1844 --
Chase_Steely: “To write from a people is to write a people—to make them live—to endow them with a life and a name—to preserve them with a history forever.”
– William Gilmore Simms
HistoryGuy111: A lot of the William Gilmore Simms books are available. Here's the best one "Slavery in America and Father Abbott," introduction by Ehren Foley. The introduction is worth the price of admission (if the price of admission is discounted to $9.25) /10
HistoryGuy111: OK, real talk, you don't want that last book, I get it. But you can get the full run of Simms's letters, all six volumes, for $60. These are a really good primary source collection in southern history and the footnotes are loaded with information /11
LiteraryRob: "Steal not this book, my worthy friend,
For fear the gallows be your end!"
This post by a fictional inscription in the novel "Eutaw" by William Gilmore Simms, May 13, 1771 --
MelanieJaxn: "The only true source of politeness is consideration,--that vigilant moral sense which never loses sight of the rights, the claims, and the sensibilities of others. This is the one quality, over all others, necessary to make a gentleman." ~ Happy birthday, William Gilmore Simms
CharmedMagnolia: This woman (Mary C. Simms Oliphant) of South Carolina wrote the 1953 history textbook I intercepted from my husband's family. She was the granddaughter of William Gilmore Simms, the devout southern nationalist & novelist. South Carolina loves them both.
MrTJTurner: "The only rational liberty is that which is born of subjection, reared in the fear of God and the love of man."
-- William Gilmore Simms
ChisomIzu: The conditions of conquest are always easy. We have but to toil awhile endure awhile believe always and never turn back. - William Gilmore Simms
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aovmz: “The only true source of politeness is consideration.” ― William Gilmore Simms.
ManuelPalachuk: The dread of criticism is the death of genius. - William Gilmore Simms
LiteraryRob: On the death of the mother of William Glimore Simms, January 29, 1808, how it impacted his childhood, and how it shaped him as a writer --
EdinburghUP: "William Gilmore Simms and the Influence of Burns
in the 19th Century American South" - read more from the Burns Chronicle free sampler issue!
LiteraryRob: 'Tis almost enough to make one forswear his country: Paul Hamilton Hayne writes to William Gilmore Simms about the difficulty of earning respect as writers in the South, January 14, 1859 --
DavidLaw: "I believe that economists put decimal points in their forecasts to show they have a sense of humor." - William Gilmore Simms
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tradesecretsbiz: “I believe that economists put decimal points in their forecasts to show they have a sense of humor.” —William Gilmore Simms
LiteraryRob: Charleston's memorial for native son William Gilmore Simms, December 13, 1877, including a poem by Paul Hamilton Hayne --
Gswedes: “The dread of criticism is the death of genius.”
(William Gilmore Simms)
MercyMkushi: "The dread of criticism is the death of genius."
-- William Gilmore Simms
LiteraryRob: Not now in arms, but arts, we seek the strife: William Gilmore Simms wrote a poem to deliver on opening day of the Charleston Academy of Music, December 1, 1869, though he was too unwell to deliver it himself --
WinstonElliott3: The Best American Ghost Story? William Gilmore Simms’ “Grayling” (essay by Alan Cornett and Sean Busick)
imaginativecons: The Best American Ghost Story? William Gilmore Simms’ “Grayling” (essay by Alan Cornett and Sean Busick)
allenmendenhall: The Best American Ghost Story? William Gilmore Simms' "Grayling" ~ The Imaginative Conservative
platospupil: Better that we should err in action than wholly refuse to perform. The storm is so much better than the calm, as it declares the presence of a living principle. Stagnation is something worse than death. It is corruption also.
William Gilmore Simms
JimWoodCFP: "The true law of the race is progress and development. Whenever civilization pauses in the march of conquest, it is overthrown by the barbarian."
-William Gilmore Simms
LawfulHulk: “Dear Republicans, William Gilmore Simms would be proud of you, not a good look.
Dear Democrats, Jospeh Raymond McCarthy would be proud of you, not a good look.”
gpstrickland315: “The true law of the race is progress and development. Whenever civilization pauses in the march of conquest, it is overthrown by the barbarian.” - William Gilmore Simms
twiLIEght378: The dread of criticism is the death of genius. – William Gilmore Simms
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Writing War and Reunion is a collection of Civil War and Reconstruction newspaper editorials by William Gilmore Simms. Edited by Jeffrey J. Rogers.
Available at the SCDAH gift shop, 8301 Parklane Road, Columbia, SC
tradesecretsbiz: “I believe that economists put decimal points in their forecasts to show they have a sense of humor.” —William Gilmore Simms
LiteraryRob: Essential to the reputation of the Southern people: William Gilmore Simms helps propel the Lost Cause myth in his collection "War Poetry of the South," September 8, 1866 --
aw_cwba: Booknotes: "Writing War and Reunion: Selected Civil War and Reconstruction Newspaper Editorials by William Gilmore Simms"
IVMiles: William Gilmore Simms wrote a novel (and a sequel) about the Beauchamp–Sharp Tragedy.
SeanBusick: Either C.S. Forester or William Gilmore Simms.
LiteraryRob: Sometimes absolutely puerile! Paul Hamilton Hayne notes how crotchety his unofficial literary mentor William Gilmore Simms can be, August 15, 1867 --
tradesecretsbiz: “I believe that economists put decimal points in their forecasts to show they have a sense of humor.” —William Gilmore Simms
