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Walter Brian Cisco has written an entertaining and engaging new biography of Simms’s friend and fellow poet Henry Timrod. The first complete and thoroughly researched biography of Timrod, the volume came from Fairleigh Dickinson University Press this summer and may now be ordered from Associated University Presses, 2010 Eastpark Blvd., Cranbury, Ni 08512, for $38.50. The amount of original research Cisco has done here, coupled with the excellent prose, makes this one of the better works of American literary history published in 2004. The treatment of Simms will be of particular interest to Simms Society Members. Here, Timrod the man at last emerges from undeserved obscurity. Cisco captures the passion of the poet and his time. We heartily recommend the work to Simms students and are happy to announce that Mr. Cisco is our newest member of the - Society. Cisco, a native of California, was educated at the University of South Carolina, and now lives in Cordova, South Carolina.

The Simms Review, Vol.XII, No. 2, Winter 2004

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