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Simms: a Literary Life (p)
註釋Upon his death in 1870 at the age of sixty-four, William Gilmore Simms was eulogized not only throughout his native state of South Carolina, but also in New York, Cincinnati, Mobile, Pittsburgh, New Orleans, and Atlanta. Correctly called by Jay B. Hubbell "the central figure in the literature of the Old South," Simms played a major role, as editor and critic as well as author, in encouraging the development of Southern letters; but though quintessentially Southern, Simms.