{"product_id":"southern-poets-and-poems-1606-1860-the-land-they-loved-volume-1-9781963506143","title":"Southern Poets And Poems, 1606 -1860: The Land They Loved Volume 1","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Clyde N. Wilson\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Shotwell Publishing LLC\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Shotwell Publishing LLC\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Subjects \u0026amp; Themes - Places\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTHIS COLLECTION OF SOUTHERN POETS AND POEMS, 1606-1860, is made not from the viewpoint of a literary critic but that of a student of history interested in how the experiences of the Southern people have been reflected in verse. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePoetry contains a kind of truth not found in other forms of expression. We are guided by the advice of William Gilmore Simms, the father of Southern literature: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The emotional literature of a people is as necessary to the philosophical historian as the mere details of events in the progress of a nation. This is essential to the reputation of the Southern people, as illustrating their feelings, sentiments, ideas and opinions - the motives which influenced their actions, and the objects which they had in contemplation, and which seemed to them to justify the struggle in which they were engaged.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is the first in a planned five-volume series that will trace with verse the four hundred year history of the people of the South and The Land They Loved.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Shotwell Publishing LLC","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45162767777943,"sku":"9781963506143","price":1420.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781963506143.webp?v=1768571043","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/southern-poets-and-poems-1606-1860-the-land-they-loved-volume-1-9781963506143","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}