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Welcome to Two Hundred Years of Palmetto Poets, a website dedicated to
the first poets of South Carolina. This site features images, biographical
sketches, and the poetry of South Carolinians of the eighteenth and nineteenth
centuries.
Our goal was to produce a very simple website that would allow the interested
to learn more about this state's neglected literary heritage. In the course
of our research, we were surprised by the quality and variety of South
Carolina poetry, and in learning about these poets, we felt we had gained
a better understanding of our home state.
 Each
page includes an image (usually of the poet), a brief biographical sketch,
and a representative poem. It was relatively easy to find material on
the major nineteenth-century South Carolina writers (i.e. William Gilmore
Simms and Henry Timrod), but we found most rewarding the "digging"
required to secure material on more obscure figures like John Dickson
Bruns and Mary Weston Fordham. This research would not have been possible
without the assistance and support of the librarians at Kimbel Library
at Coastal Carolina University (especially the Interlibrary Loan office)
and the staff at the special collections department at the College of
Charleston Library. We also benefitted from collections at the University
of South Carolina and Winthrop University.
Whenever possible, we have taken poem texts from their original printed
sources. Our editorial touch has been particularly light; in a few cases
we have silently modernized punctuation, but for the most part the poems
stand as they first appeared.
 This
project was made possible by a Coastal Carolina University Academic Enhancement
Grant. This grant type, which encourages student-faculty collaboration,
allowed an English Professor and two English majors to spend the summer
of 2000 reading, writing and HTML-ing a small part of South Carolina's
cultural history. We'd like to thank the University and grant committee
for their support.
The web design is simple (some might say simplistic--we were learning
as we went), and can easily be replicated and adapted for other projects.
We hope that this site will inspire others to use technology to preserve
heritage, and inspire them to make the Web a slightly more literate place.
Comments are welcome.
Daniel J. Ennis, Assistant Professor of English
Gregg Nystrom, Senior
Heather Steere, Senior
Coastal Carolina University Department of English
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