The Poet Laureate of the Lost Cause

 "It may be that the poems are totally inaccessible to the general reader as were those of John R. Thompson before the publication of *the Library of Southern Literature, or obtained with great difficulty as those of Judge Daniel Bedinger Lucas whose volumes now lying before me are rare and precious."

 

*This is a treasure which was given to me by my mother. The one above is only $179.94 which is a steal considering the contents, though a library set.  Here is a non-library one for $1,440, but the same content.  Countless hours of pleasure.

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It was the fate of much Southern poetry to have been written during the stormy period of our Civil War (sic) and hence to have been overlooked and neglected. War may furnish incitement to the production of poetry, but it does not generate that attitude of quiet and content most conducive to gentle, poetic reading. Indeed misfortune befell much poetry of this period, for when it was not ignored, it was frequently disparaged because of sectional alignments and prejudices.

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