Virginia literature

The literature of Virginia, United States, includes fiction, poetry, and nonfiction. Representative authors include James Branch Cabell, Ellen Glasgow, William Hoffman, Lee Smith, Carolyn Kreiter-Foronda and William Styron.[1][2]

History

A printing press began operating in Jamestown, Virginia, in 1682.[3] Colonial- and Federal-era writers included John Smith (True Relation of Occurrences and Accidents in Virginia, 1608); Robert Beverley, Jr. (History and Present State of Virginia, 1705); Arthur Blackamore (Religious Triumverate, 1720); Thomas Jefferson (Notes on the State of Virginia, 1785).[4]

Literary figures of the antebellum period included Edgar Allan Poe and Virginia-born writers William Alexander Caruthers (1802–1846), John Esten Cooke (1830-1886), Philip Pendleton Cooke (1816 -1850), Nathaniel Beverley Tucker (1784-1851).[5] The Southern Literary Messenger launched in Richmond in 1834.[6]

Marion Fontaine Cabell Tyree's Housekeeping in Old Virginia, a cookbook, was published in Richmond in 1878.[7]

Organizations

The Poetry Society of Virginia formed in 1923.[8]

Awards and events

The Virginia General Assembly created the position of Poet Laureate of Virginia in 1936.

See also

References

  1. Longest 2001.
  2. Huggins 2003.
  3. Lawrence C. Wroth (1938), "Diffusion of Printing", The Colonial Printer, Portland, Maine: Southworth-Anthoensen Press via Internet Archive (Fulltext)
  4. Charles Reagan Wilson; William Ferris, eds. (1989). "Beginnings of Southern Literature". Encyclopedia of Southern Culture. University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 0807818232 via Documenting the American South.
  5. Charles Reagan Wilson; William Ferris, eds. (1989). "Antebellum Era". Encyclopedia of Southern Culture. University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 0807818232 via Documenting the American South.
  6. Hayes 2015.
  7. "Regional American Cooking: South and Border States", Feeding America: the Historic American Cookbook Project, Michigan State University, retrieved March 13, 2017
  8. "About PSV". Poetry Society of Virginia. Retrieved March 11, 2017.

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