v. 1. A glance at the field; here a tale, there a song. Paul Hamilton Hayne, poet laureate of the South. Dr. Frank O. Tichnor, the southern lyric poet; and Henry Timrod, the unfortunate singer. William Gilmore Simms: the novelist, the poet. John Pendleton Kennedy, John Esten Cooke, and other southern novelists.
v. 2. Edgar Allan Poe: a genius in story and song. War poets of the South; singers on fire. Singers in various keys: John R. Thompson, James Barron Hope, Henry Lynden Flash, and others. Southern humorists: Longstreet, Baldwin, Hooper, W. T. Thompson, Davy Crockett, and others. Political writers and historians.
