Author : Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 13,77 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780813917436
Book Description
In assembling Gildersleeve's writings-- autobiographical, Richmond Examiner newspaper editorials, and Southern essays, Briggs (classics and humanities, U. of South Carolina) brings to light the reflections of a U. of Virginia classics scholar during the Civil War. His classical rhetoric lends a novel twist to his loyalist but critical views on the South's "Good Cause," in chastising the Confederate administration as well as critics of slavery and Yankee poet "sinners" against the English language. Includes a few bandw photos. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR