An American history . THE HOUSE OF WILLIAM GILMORE SIMMSIN SOUTH CAROLINA. JOHN CALDWELL CALHOUNFrom a daguerreotype THE DUAL REVOLUTION 337 Calhoun. The novelist, William Gilmore Simms, wove thelife of the South into a series of tales to form a sort of prosechronicle of its bravery. Somewhat later came anothernovehst, John Esten Cooke, of Virginia. J. M. Legare andafter him the better known Paul H. Hayne hold their placesamong the poets. But the Southern author who felt the callof his own land and expressed it most distinctively was HenryTimrod. His poems are a striking contrast to those of t
An American history . THE HOUSE OF WILLIAM GILMORE SIMMSIN SOUTH CAROLINA. JOHN CALDWELL CALHOUNFrom a daguerreotype THE DUAL REVOLUTION 337 Calhoun. The novelist, William Gilmore Simms, wove thelife of the South into a series of tales to form a sort of prosechronicle of its bravery. Somewhat later came anothernovehst, John Esten Cooke, of Virginia. J. M. Legare andafter him the better known Paul H. Hayne hold their placesamong the poets. But the Southern author who felt the callof his own land and expressed it most distinctively was HenryTimrod. His poems are a striking contrast to those of thenationalist singers. They have but two main themes — hisown soil, South Carolina, and a passion to resist invasion. Onhis gentler side, in his love of the strange, mj^sterious landscapeof the low-lying Carolinas with their rich flora, Timrod expressesin poetry the concentration of Southern life within its ownhorizon. In his passionate phase, there rang from him thetypical Southern devotion to the state. Some lines of his,written after this thirty-year period had end
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