The most widely published scholar and editor of Simms, John Caldwell Guilds has devoted more than four decades to the study of Simms and his works. Author of the prize-winning biography Simms: A Literary Life and editor of Selected Fiction of William Gilmore Simms: Arkansas Edition, Guilds holds the Distinguished Professorship in the Humanities at the University of Arkansas. Guilds lives on Cartwright Mountain in the Ozarks of northwest Arkansas. Charles Hudson, retired as the Franklin Professor of Anthropology at the University of Georgia, is the author of, among other works, The Southeastern Indians and Knights of Spain, Warriors of the Sun: Hernando de Soto and the South's Ancient Chiefdoms. Hudson is also the editor of The Ethnology of the Southeastern Indians: A Source Book. Hudson resides in Athens, Georgia.

"A door into the best elements of a major poetical career.... Simms's variety as a poet is surprising, occasionally even startling." - Resources for American Literary Study "Simms most definitely deserves this attention because of his national, not just Southern, importance.... Kibler's edition of Simms's poetry... is a splendid achievement of editing and scholarship." - South Atlantic Review"

The most widely published scholar and editor of Simms, John Caldwell Guilds has devoted more than four decades to the study of Simms and his works. Author of the prize-winning biography Simms: A Literary Life and editor of Selected Fiction of William Gilmore Simms: Arkansas Edition, Guilds holds the Distinguished Professorship in the Humanities at the University of Arkansas. Guilds lives on Cartwright Mountain in the Ozarks of northwest Arkansas. Charles Hudson, retired as the Franklin Professor of Anthropology at the University of Georgia, is the author of, among other works, The Southeastern Indians and Knights of Spain, Warriors of the Sun: Hernando de Soto and the South's Ancient Chiefdoms. Hudson is also the editor of The Ethnology of the Southeastern Indians: A Source Book. Hudson resides in Athens, Georgia.

"A door into the best elements of a major poetical career.... Simms's variety as a poet is surprising, occasionally even startling." - Resources for American Literary Study "Simms most definitely deserves this attention because of his national, not just Southern, importance.... Kibler's edition of Simms's poetry... is a splendid achievement of editing and scholarship." - South Atlantic Review"

The most widely published scholar and editor of Simms, John Caldwell Guilds has devoted more than four decades to the study of Simms and his works. Author of the prize-winning biography Simms: A Literary Life and editor of Selected Fiction of William Gilmore Simms: Arkansas Edition, Guilds holds the Distinguished Professorship in the Humanities at the University of Arkansas. Guilds lives on Cartwright Mountain in the Ozarks of northwest Arkansas. Charles Hudson, retired as the Franklin Professor of Anthropology at the University of Georgia, is the author of, among other works, The Southeastern Indians and Knights of Spain, Warriors of the Sun: Hernando de Soto and the South's Ancient Chiefdoms. Hudson is also the editor of The Ethnology of the Southeastern Indians: A Source Book. Hudson resides in Athens, Georgia.

"A door into the best elements of a major poetical career.... Simms's variety as a poet is surprising, occasionally even startling." - Resources for American Literary Study "Simms most definitely deserves this attention because of his national, not just Southern, importance.... Kibler's edition of Simms's poetry... is a splendid achievement of editing and scholarship." - South Atlantic Review"