Poems of John R. Thompson (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

John Reuben Thompson

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ISBN 10 : 1330556747 ISBN 13 : 9781330556740

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Preston, John Pendleton Kennedy, Rufus W. Griswold, Donald G. Mitchell, and many others, rich in personal and critical information which has been freely used in the biographical part of this volume. A valuable supple ment to the letters to Thompson is a large number of his own letters, found in the unpublished Griswold Manuscripts in the Athenaeum Library in Boston and in the inedited Kennedy Papers in the Library of the Peabody I nstitute, Bal timore. They throw a flood of light on the writers life and the literary interests of the period just before the Civil War. This book owes much to an abiding faith in the value of Thompson sservices to literature, to a persistent and wide spread interest in his better known poems, and to friend ships due to his personal worth and attraction. To more persons than can well be named here thanks are offered for assiduous and sympathetic assistance. Miss Carrie Hill Davis searched the libraries and other archives of New York and left no Thompsoniana undiscovered. Colonel W. Gor don Mc Cabe of Richmond, Thompson sfriend, communicated his memories of the poet and his work, as did also Mr. A rmistead C. Gordon and Mr. R. T. W. Duke, Jr. Mr. J. H. Whitty lent letters and manuscripts from his large collec tion, and Mrs. Thomas H. Ellis an interesting packet of Thompson sintimate letters to her father, the late B. John son Barbour of Barboursville, Va. These are but a few of those who lent biographical and other material used in the preparation of this volume. Three others whose contribution was in the form of needed advice and assistance are Professor William M. Thornton, Dr. John C. Metcalf, and Dr. Philip A. Bruce, who have followed the work from the beginning until its delivery to the publishers. J. S. P. THE LIBRARY, UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA, A ugust, 1919.
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John H. Thompson have their first publication in book form. Though vagrant for more than a half century they have not been forgotten; and no collection of the work of Southern poets will ever fail to include some of his verses. This vitality of the known part of his productions is a proof of worth and supports Thompson sright to assignment to a station of dignity among Southerners who have won distinction with the pen. He deserved the reward of recognition for his service the greatest rendered by any one of his particular section in creating a literary spirit and a literary class in the South. Thompson twice assembled his poems for publication: in 186U, when he and Henry Timrod put their verses together for joint publication; and again, a short time before his death. The poems of this last collection were committed to the keeping of his literary executor, who never accounted for them and some prose manuscripts that he received at the same time. The war-time collection was entrusted to a blockaderunner tbe printed in London, and was never heard of again. Because of these vicissitudes there was no nucleus, and with the flight of years the task of bringing the pieces together became difficult. The Southern Literary Messenger published the most of his work, but usually the poems were unsigned or over uoms de plume not remembered as his. The perplexities created by anonymity were gradually cleared up with the assistance of persons and papers. Miss Lily Quarles, the poets niece, put at the editors service all of the letters and manuscripts in the possession of the family that in any way bear upon Thompson slife and work.
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• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1330556747
• ISBN 13: 9781330556740
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 312
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