The Land They Loved Volume III

<p><span style=color: rgba(83 90 98 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>THIS BOOK IS THE SECOND VOLUME of a two-volume collection of Confederate Poets and Poems and the third entry into a planned six-volume Southern poetry collection </span><em style=color: rgba(83 90 98 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>The Land They Loved</em><span style=color: rgba(83 90 98 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>. The first book of the series was </span><em style=color: rgba(83 90 98 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Southern Poets and Poems 1600-1860</em><span style=color: rgba(83 90 98 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)> published in 2023.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(83 90 98 1)>Poetry conveys a kind of truth not found in other forms of human communication. The great William Gilmore Simms said that verse was necessary to understand the Confederate people in their historic struggle for independence. Southern verse he wrote was essential to knowing the opinions and ideas the motives and actions of the Southern people.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(83 90 98 1)>And what a dedicated skilled and honourable struggle it was! Fashionable historians now treat everything favourable about the Southern Confederacy as a Lost Cause Myth. They are wrong. Confederates were a learned and thoughtful people and studying these verses demonstrates that there is a great deal more to the Lost Cause than a Myth.</span></p>