Présentation de l'éditeur
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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