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Notes
Despite its 1854 publication, the volume's title page bears the date 1853. For a descriptive bibliography and publication history of Poems Descriptive, Dramatic, Legendary and Contemplative, see James E. Kibler, The Poetry of William Gilmore Simms: An Introduction and Bibliography (Columbia, S. C.: Southern Studies Program, 1979), 90 — 97.
The single sheet is among loose papers in the extensive Simms Collection of the South Caroliniana Library, University of South Carolina, Manuscripts item P 1540.
Letter of Simms to Henry Panton, 25 January 1853, in The Letters of William Gilmore Simms, ed. Mary C. Simms Oliphant, et al. (University of South Carolina Press, 1952 — 82), III, 224.
Simms, "Poe's Poetry," Charleston, S. C. Southern Patriot (10 November 1845) and reprinted in Simms Review, I, no. 2 (Winter 1993), 20 — 25. Here Simms defends Poe against his Boston critics.
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