Poems ... Nineteenth edition. [With a portrait.] - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Poems ... Nineteenth edition. [With a portrait.] write by Thomas Hood. This book was released on 1866. Poems ... Nineteenth edition. [With a portrait.] available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Modern Portrait Poem
The Modern Portrait Poem - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Modern Portrait Poem write by Frances Dickey. This book was released on 2012. The Modern Portrait Poem available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In bridging historical periods, national boundaries, and disciplinary distinctions, Dickey makes a case for the continuity of this genre over the Victorian/Modernist divide and from Britain to the United States in a time of rapid change in the arts.
Augusta Webster: Portraits and Other Poems
Augusta Webster: Portraits and Other Poems - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Augusta Webster: Portraits and Other Poems write by Augusta Webster. This book was released on 2000-03-02. Augusta Webster: Portraits and Other Poems available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Augusta Webster was very widely praised in her own time—Christina Rossetti thought her “by far the most formidable” woman poet. Her work has again come into favour, so much so that Isobel Armstrong and her co-editors of the influential anthology, Nineteenth-Century Women Poets, declare that “there can be no doubt that Augusta Webster ranks as one of the great Victorian poets.” This collection is the first edition of Webster’s poems since 1895. It is a selection of her best work, emphasizing her powerful dramatic monologues and including a substantial number of her lyrics. With an introduction and background documents that highlight the distinctiveness of her work, this edition will help to re-establish Augusta Webster as a major figure of nineteenth-century English literature.
The Social Lives of Poems in Nineteenth-Century America
The Social Lives of Poems in Nineteenth-Century America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Social Lives of Poems in Nineteenth-Century America write by Michael C. Cohen. This book was released on 2015-05-28. The Social Lives of Poems in Nineteenth-Century America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Poetry occupied a complex position in the social life of nineteenth-century America. While some readers found in poems a resource for aesthetic pleasure and the enjoyment of linguistic complexity, many others turned to poems for spiritual and psychic wellbeing, adapted popular musical settings of poems to spread scandal and satire, or used poems as a medium for asserting personal and family memories as well as local and national affiliations. Poetry was not only read but memorized and quoted, rewritten and parodied, collected, anthologized, edited, and exchanged. Michael C. Cohen here explores the multiplicity of imaginative relationships forged between poems and those who made use of them from the post-Revolutionary era to the turn of the twentieth century. Organized along a careful genealogy of ballads in the Atlantic world, The Social Lives of Poems in Nineteenth-Century America demonstrates how the circulation of texts in songs, broadsides, letters, and newsprint as well as in books, anthologies, and critical essays enabled poetry to perform its many different tasks. Considering the media and modes of reading through which people encountered and made sense of poems, Cohen traces the lines of critical interpretations and tracks the emergence and disappearance of poetic genres in American literary culture. Examining well-known works by John Greenleaf Whittier and Walt Whitman as well as popular ballads, minstrel songs, and spirituals, Cohen shows how discourses on poetry served as sites for debates over history, literary culture, citizenship, and racial identity.
Reading in Time
Reading in Time - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Reading in Time write by Cristanne Miller. This book was released on 2012. Reading in Time available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book provides new information about Emily Dickinson as a writer and new ways of situating this poet in relation to nineteenth-century literary culture, examining how we read her poetry and how she was reading the poetry of her own day. Cristanne Miller argues both that Dickinson's poetry is formally far closer to the verse of her day than generally imagined and that Dickinson wrote, circulated, and retained poems differently before and after 1865. Many current conceptions of Dickinson are based on her late poetic practice. Such conceptions, Miller contends, are inaccurate for the time when she wrote the great majority of her poems. Before 1865, Dickinson at least ambivalently considered publication, circulated relatively few poems, and saved almost everything she wrote in organized booklets. After this date, she wrote far fewer poems, circulated many poems without retaining them, and took less interest in formally preserving her work. Yet, Miller argues, even when circulating relatively few poems, Dickinson was vitally engaged with the literary and political culture of her day and, in effect, wrote to her contemporaries. Unlike previous accounts placing Dickinson in her era, Reading in Time demonstrates the extent to which formal properties of her poems borrow from the short-lined verse she read in schoolbooks, periodicals, and single-authored volumes. Miller presents Dickinson's writing in relation to contemporary experiments with the lyric, the ballad, and free verse, explores her responses to American Orientalism, presents the dramatic lyric as one of her preferred modes for responding to the Civil War, and gives us new ways to understand the patterns of her composition and practice of poetry.
