Nicholas G. Meriwether

Pirates and Devils, edited by Nicholas G. Meriwether and David W. Newton, presents two of the most significant unfinished works by William Gilmore Simms, a prominent public intellectual of the antebellum South and one of the most prolific literary writers of the nineteenth century. These two incomplete works-the pirate romance, "The Brothers of the Coast," and the folk fable, "Sir Will O' Wisp"-are representative of the some of the last major primary...