Antique Book buying 1913 Southern Poems edited by Charles W. Kent

“Southern Poems” were selected, arranged and edited with biographical notes by Charles W. Kent as part of the Riverside Literature Series. Published in 1913 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Kent was Professor of English Literature at the University of Virginia and “selected these poems from the wide range of Southern poetry, that the South's contribution to our national literature may be in part apprehended. These selections, however, have not been made to establish any cause or exemplify any theory, but partly to illustrate chronological development, and mainly to portray Southern life and sentiment in poems of individual literary merit.”

Charles William Kent (1860 – 1917) entered the University of Virginia in 1878 and graduated in 1882 with an M.A. After graduation, he and his college friend Lewis Minor Coleman founded the University School in Charleston, S.C., where Kent taught from 1882 to 1884. Then he went to Germany to study English and modern languages at Gottingen, Berlin, and finally Leipzig where he took at Ph.D. in 1887. After a year spent teaching French and German at the University of Virginia, Kent became professor of English and modern languages at the University of Tennessee, where he remained until 1893. That year he accepted the newly established chair at the University of Virginia in the Linden Kent Memorial School of English Literature, named for an older brother. On June 4, 1895, he married Eleanor Miles. buying Professor Kent remained on the faculty at the University of Virginia until his death.

Condition: Small volume with green cloth boards with black lettering and pillars on the front cover. Spine has black text and rubbing at the top and bottom of the spine. Boards show some wear near the spine and have slight blemishes and rubbing to the front and rear boards. The rear board has the Riverside Library Series logo and the number 220. Corners have some bumping. The spine is straight and hinges are firmly attached with cloth binding to the endpapers. Text block is solid. Age tanning throughout. The number 1646 is written in blue ink at the bottom of the preface page. The interior pages are clean with no tears, chips, creases or previous owner marks. 112 pages including index and 6 pages of Houghton Mifflin Co advertising Dimensions: H – 7” W – 4-1/2”

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