The Prophetic Tradition in American Poetry, 1835-1900
Title | The Prophetic Tradition in American Poetry, 1835-1900 PDF eBook |
Author | Aaron Kramer |
Publisher | |
Pages | 4 |
Release | 1967 |
Genre | American poetry |
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The Prophetic Tradition in American Poetry, 1835-1900
Title | The Prophetic Tradition in American Poetry, 1835-1900 PDF eBook |
Author | Aaron Kramer |
Publisher | |
Pages | 424 |
Release | 1968 |
Genre | Abortion, Therapeutic |
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The Prophetic Tradition in American Poetry, 1835-1900. Vol. One and Two
Title | The Prophetic Tradition in American Poetry, 1835-1900. Vol. One and Two PDF eBook |
Author | Aaron Kramer |
Publisher | |
Pages | 358 |
Release | 1966 |
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The Prophetic Tradition and Radical Rhetoric in America
Title | The Prophetic Tradition and Radical Rhetoric in America PDF eBook |
Author | James Darsey |
Publisher | NYU Press |
Pages | 291 |
Release | 1999-09-01 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 081474415X |
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 Prophetic Tradition in American Tradition 1835-1900
Title | The Prophetic Tradition in American Tradition 1835-1900 PDF eBook |
Author | Aaron Kramer |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 1968 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
The Cambridge Companion to Nineteenth-Century American Poetry
Title | The Cambridge Companion to Nineteenth-Century American Poetry PDF eBook |
Author | Kerry C. Larson |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 311 |
Release | 2011-12 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 052176369X |
The first critical collection of its kind devoted solely to this subject, this Companion covers both well-known and lesser-known poets.
The Poetry of American Women from 1632 to 1945
Title | The Poetry of American Women from 1632 to 1945 PDF eBook |
Author | Emily Stipes Watts |
Publisher | University of Texas Press |
Pages | 235 |
Release | 2014-09-10 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1477303448 |
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.