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Thomas C. DeLeon, Four years in Rebel capitals: an inside view of life in the southern confederacy, from birth to death., Chapter 32: press, literature and art. (search)
ron's translation of Miilbach's Joseph II., and Dr. Wm. Sheppardson's collection of War poetry of the South. This is not an imposing array of prose writers, and it may be incomplete; but it is very certain that there are not many omissions. In poetry, the warmer clime of the South would naturally have been expected to excel; but, while the list of rhymsters was longer than Leporello's, the poets hardly exceeded in number the writers of prose. Thompson, Meek, Simms, Hayne, Timrod and McCord were the few names that had gone over the border. Up to that time, however, the South had never produced any great poem, that was to stand aere perennius. But that there was a vast amount of latent poetry in our people was first developed by the terrible friction of war. In the dead-winter watches of the camp, in the stricken homes of the widow and the childless, and in the very prison pens, where they were crushed under outrage and contumely — the souls of the southrons rose in song.