The Poetry of William Gilmore Simms: An Introduction and Bibliography

Never sold copy still in original shrink-wrap. Remarkable work of scholarship many years in the making. Kibler had to determine the scores of pseudonyms which Simms published most of his poetry under in scores of often very obscure old periodicals, and he ended up verifying close to 2,000 of them as authentic. He believes that Simms, better known as a novelist today, is a greatly neglected Romantic poet in the school of figures like Coleridge and Keats. His few widely anthologized poems are actually some of his inferior work, as Simms believed and with which Kibler totally agrees. Note: few of the poems actually appear in this lengthy book, although most can be read online now. This is instead a very intense bibliographical work. Heavy, so extra freight if going outside the US. Green board with silver lettering on spine. No dust jacket was produced. 478 pp.