Author: Aaron KramerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 4
Book Description
The Prophetic Tradition in American Poetry, 1835-1900
Author: Aaron KramerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 4
Book Description
The Prophetic Tradition in American Poetry, 1835-1900
Author: Aaron KramerPublisher:
ISBN: 9780838667743
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
The Prophetic Tradition and Radical Rhetoric in America
Author: James DarseyPublisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 081474415X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
This expansive volume traces the rhetoric of reform across American history, examining such pivotal periods as the American Revolution, slavery, McCarthyism, and today's gay liberation movement. At a time when social movements led by religious leaders, from Louis Farrakhan to Pat Buchanan, are playing a central role in American politics, James Darsey connects this radical tradition with its prophetic roots. Public discourse in the West is derived from the Greek principles of civility, diplomacy, compromise, and negotiation. On this model, radical speech is often taken to be a sympton of social disorder. Not so, contends Darsey, who argues that the rhetoric of reform in America represents the continuation of a tradition separate from the commonly accepted principles of the Greeks. Though the links have gone unrecognized, the American radical tradition stems not from Aristotle, he maintains, but from the prophets of the Hebrew Bible.
The Poetry of American Women from 1632 to 1945
Author: Emily Stipes WattsPublisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 1477303448
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
American women have created an especially vigorous and innovative poetry, beginning in 1632 when Anne Bradstreet set aside her needle and picked up her "poet's pen." The topics of American women poets have been various, their images their own, and their modes of expression original. Emily Stipes Watts does not imply that the work of American men and that of American women are two different kinds of poetry, although they have been treated as such in the past. It is her aim, rather, to delineate and define the poetic tradition of women as crucial to the understanding of American poetry as a whole. By 1850, American women of all colors, religions, and social classes were writing and publishing poetry. Within the critical category of "female poetry," developed from 1800 to 1850, these women experimented boldly and prepared the way for the achievement of such women as Emily Dickinson in the second half of the nineteenth century. Indeed at times—for example from 1860 through 1910—it was women who were at the outer edge of prosodic experimentation and innovation in American poetry. Moving chronologically, Professor Watts broadly characterizes the state of American poetry for each period, citing the dominant male poets; she then focuses on women contemporaries, singling out and analyzing their best work. This volume not only brings to light several important women poets but also represents the discovery of a tradition of women writers. This is a unique and invaluable contribution to the history of American literature.
The Cambridge Companion to Nineteenth-Century American Poetry
Author: Kerry C. LarsonPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 052176369X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
The first critical collection of its kind devoted solely to this subject, this Companion covers both well-known and lesser-known poets.
Beyond Romanticism
Author: Eugene EnglandPublisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780791407912
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
This biography of American poet Frederick Goddard Tuckerman focuses on his development as both a "Romantic," whose work was influenced by Keats, Emerson, and Tennyson, and as an "anti-Romantic," in the mold of Hawthorne, Melville, and Dickinson. Using previously unexamined letters, family records, and notes by Tuckerman, Eugene England traces the poet's unique combination of Anglican rationalism, legal training, and skill in natural observation (under the tutelage of his brother Edward, a noted botanist), all of which caused him to depart from the orthodox Emersonian Romanticism in unusual and instructive ways. England examines Tuckerman's challenging resolution to basic aesthetic and epistemological dilemmas posed by Romanticism and demonstrates that his poems are a first-rate artistic achievement of continuing value. Beyond Romanticism includes a general bibliography as well as a complete bibliography of Tuckerman's writings and works about him and his poetry.
Wicked Times
Author: Aaron KramerPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252029189
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
This is the collected work of a major, versatile American poet passionately engaged with everything from the Holocaust and the Spanish Civil War to his love for New York City and his wife. The editors argue that his long poem sequence, Denmark Vesey, stands as the most ambitious poem about African American history ever written by a white American. Wicked Times includes previously unpublished poems and the first detailed account of Kramer's life, along with photos and extensive explanatory notes.
Would Poetry Disappear?
Author: John Timberman NewcombPublisher: Ohio State University Press
ISBN: 0814209580
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Everyday and Prophetic
Author: Nick HalpernPublisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 9780299173401
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
"Halpern traces the complex relationship between the everyday and prophetic voices, arguing that their failure or success in the poem determines whether the reader is rewarded with sharp disappointment or tremendous excitment."--BOOK JACKET.
The Apocalypse in English Renaissance Thought and Literature
Author: C. A. PatridesPublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719017308
Category : Apocalypse in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
This remarkable collection of original essays by a distinguished group of American and English scholars explores attitudes toward apocalyptic thought and the Book of Revelation as they were reflected, over many centuries, in theological discourse, political activity, and artistic and literary endeavors.