[Confederate Imprint]: [Bulwer-Lytton, Edward]:

$500 · Offered by William Reese Company

TÄNNHAUSER; OR, THE BATTLE OF THE BARDS. A POEM. By Neville Temple and Edward Trevor [pseudonyms]. An odd literary flowering in the embattled Confederacy. Parrish & Willingham attribute actual authorship to Julian H.C. Fane and Edward R. Bulwer-Lytton. The Southern Literary Messenger for June 1863 published a lengthy and viciously scathing review of this poem's literary merits, calling out Bulwer-Lytton by name and proclaiming that "nothing but the poverty of the literary market which a two years' blockade has caused, would have tempted us to take up Tannhauser." S.H. Goetzel of Alabama published a number of fictional works during the war, including issues of Dickens' Great Expectations and A Christmas Carol. All Confederate literature is quite scarce.

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