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James Barron Hope : Virginia's Poet-Laureate, Cullen S. Pitt
James Barron Hope : Virginia's Poet-Laureate, Cullen S. Pitt
Master's Theses
Previous to the Civil War comparatively little literary work had been done in the south. Of course if we take into consideration all kinds of composition, such as narratives of adventure, diaries, histories, speeches, sermons and the like, we are forced to admit that the total amount was very large. But when we speak of literature in the higher and more restricted sense, we mean that which stimulates the imagination, awakens thought and aims to please as well as to instruct. And, using the word in this narrow and more restricted sense, it is quite evident that there had been …