The patriot poets American odes, progress poems, and the state of the union
"Since before the Declaration of Independence, poets have shaped a collective imagination of nationhood at critical points in American history. In The Patriot Poets Stephen Adams considers major odes and "progress poems" that address America's destiny in the face of slavery, the...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago :
McGill-Queen's University Press
[2018]
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
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| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b40599425*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; THE PATRIOT POETS; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Philip Freneau's Summa of American Exceptionalism: "The Rising Glory of America"; 2 The Progress Poem in America, a Long View: Whitman's "A Passage to India," Hart Crane's The Bridge, and Beyond; 3 Repercussions of "The Bells": Poe, Emerson, and the Bifurcation of American Poetics (with a Postscript on Tuckerman); 4 "Speaking as an American to Americans": James Russell Lowell's "Harvard Commemoration Ode" and the Idea of Nationhood; 5 Confederate Poetics: Simms, Timrod, Lanier.
- 6 Nineteenth-Century Poems by Women: Hannah Flagg Gould's "Ode on Art," Mary Ashe Lee's "Afmerica," and Harriet Monroe and the Great Columbian Exposition7 Questioning America: Moody's "Ode in Time of Hesitation"; 8 Between Two Wars (1): The Lost Causes of Allen Tate
- "Ode to the Confederate Dead"; 9 Between Two Wars (2): "America Was Promises"
- Archibald MacLeish and "The Irresponsibles"; 10 Between Two Wars (3): Odes for and against Silence
- Millay, Taggard, Rukeyser; 11 The Rising Glory of Africa: Melvin Tolson's Libretto for the Republic of Liberia.
- 12 "America, You Made Me Want to Be a Saint": Allen Ginsberg's "Howl"Notes; Bibliography; Index.
