{"id":290,"date":"2024-11-29T23:42:57","date_gmt":"2024-11-29T23:42:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.leedberg.com\/athaeneum\/?p=290"},"modified":"2024-11-30T00:14:21","modified_gmt":"2024-11-30T00:14:21","slug":"selections-from-the-southern-poets-1913","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.leedberg.com\/athenaeum\/selections-from-the-southern-poets-1913\/","title":{"rendered":"Selections from The Southern Poets (1913)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"metaslider-id-303\" style=\"width: 100%;\" class=\"ml-slider-3-100-0 metaslider metaslider-flex metaslider-303 ml-slider ms-theme-default\" role=\"region\" aria-label=\"Southern Poets\" data-height=\"700\" data-width=\"700\">\n    <div id=\"metaslider_container_303\">\n        <div id=\"metaslider_303\">\n            <ul class='slides'>\n                <li style=\"display: block; width: 100%;\" class=\"slide-305 ms-image \" aria-roledescription=\"slide\" data-date=\"2024-11-29 23:51:37\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2560\" src=\"https:\/\/www.leedberg.com\/athenaeum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Southern-Poets-scaled.jpg\" class=\"slider-303 slide-305 msDefaultImage\" alt=\"\" rel=\"\" title=\"Southern Poets\" style=\"margin: 0 auto; width: 75%\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.leedberg.com\/athenaeum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Southern-Poets-scaled.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/www.leedberg.com\/athenaeum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Southern-Poets-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.leedberg.com\/athenaeum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Southern-Poets-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.leedberg.com\/athenaeum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Southern-Poets-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/www.leedberg.com\/athenaeum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Southern-Poets-1536x2048.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/li>\n            <\/ul>\n        <\/div>\n        \n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Title: Selections from The Southern Poets<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Author: William Lander Weber<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Publisher: The MacMillian Company<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Estimated year of printing: 1913&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Notes:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Copyright 1901<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Printed 1913 as indicated on title page.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Inscription: \u201cTo Kate, with much love and affection, Debora, 1984\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a collection of poems by Southern poets, along with biographies of each, including many selections by Edgar Allen Poe.&nbsp; It was compiled by William Lander Weber, who was a respected educator at colleges in the south \u2014 teaching at Emory in Georgia and becoming President of Centenary College in Louisiana.&nbsp; He died in 1910, before this particular printing occurred. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The book itself is a great addition to my collection, it is in a small form factor with an attractive design on the cover.&nbsp; It\u2019s part of the MacMillian\u2019s Pocket Classics series, which reprinted many classic books in a small form factor with extra introductory material, intended for use in schools.&nbsp; MacMillian was founded in 1843 and still exists today, focused on publishing textbooks and educational material.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Historial context:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When this book was printed in 1913, Woodrow Wilson was president, and World War I would start the following year in 1914.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Notes: Copyright 1901 Printed 1913 as indicated on title page. 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