Historical and Political Poems
Monody; The Vision of Cortes, Cain, and Other Poems; The Tri-Color; Donna Florida; and Charleston and Her Satirists
William Gilmore Simms
introduction by Jason W. Johnson
Paperback
978-1-61117-577-6
Published: Mar 14 2016
The inclusion of this book in the Open Carolina collection is made possible by the generous funding of
Comprised primarily of the long poems "The Vision of Cortes," "Cain," and "The Tri-Color", this volume also contains a number of shorter works, some of which had been previously published in other venues. The subject matter of the volume ranges widely, moving from the 1518 expedition of Hernán Cortés into Mexico to the French Revolution of 1830.