The Patriot Poets

Author : Stephen J. Adams
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773555951
Total Pages : 471 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Patriot Poets written by Stephen J. Adams and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2018-11-30 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Civil War, imperialist expansion, immigration, repeated financial boom and bust, gross social inequality, racial and gendered oppression, and the rise of the present-day corporate oligarchy. Adams elucidates how poets in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries addressed political crises from a position of patriotic idealism and how military interventions overseas in Cuba and in the Philippines increasingly caused poets to question the actions of those in power. He traces competing loyalties through major works of writers at both extremes of the political spectrum, from the radical Republican versus Confederate voices of the Civil War, through New Deal liberalism versus the lost-cause propaganda of the defeated South and the conservative isolationism of the 1930s, and after the Second World War, the renewed hope of Black leaders and the existential alienation of Allen Ginsberg's counter-culture. Blazing a new path of critical discourse, Adams questions why America, of all nations, has appeared to rule out politics as a subject fit for poetry. His answer draws connections between familiar touchstones of American poetry and significant yet neglected writing by Philip Freneau, Sidney Lanier, Archibald MacLeish, William Vaughn Moody, Muriel Rukeyser, Genevieve Taggard, Allen Tate, Henry Timrod, Melvin B. Tolson, and others. An illuminating and pioneering work, The Patriot Poets provides a rich understanding of the ambivalent relationship American poets and poems have had with nation, genre, and the public.

Author : Christopher Davis
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780820319919
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Patriot written by Christopher Davis and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Patriot is the chronicle of a deeply personal attempt to rebuild a sense of self and safety in an unstable environment. Christopher Davis's poems address destructive forces, including the murder of a younger brother and the impact of AIDS on modern gay culture. These elements blend with the dangers of a world in which love and death are cruelly inseparable, and in which the insinuations of consumer culture into the psyche destroy security, but in which dark humor and the beauty of imagery combat despair. In language electric with imagination, these poems utter a mangled, stuttering, contemporary echo of Walt Whitman's poetry, cheated out of its joyous confidence but constructing, in the words of the author, a "weak bridge away from suicide."

Author : Arthur Walter Kramer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Patriot written by Arthur Walter Kramer and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Richard Allen Hulbert
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
ISBN 13 : 1628389230
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Pen and the Patriot Poet written by Richard Allen Hulbert and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2014-10-22 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Pen & the Patriot Poet is a compilation of beautiful poems that ranges across the issues of history, religion, politics, family, patriotism, love, nature, and a blend of other concepts important to every age and culture. With the most famous and beloved letters of the century, his metaphoric strength has never been more delightful to read; each poem refreshes the heart and the soul. Richard Allen Hulbert has given his most personal and intimate work, which will help you find the same source

Author : Anna Beer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1608193780
Total Pages : 537 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Milton written by Anna Beer and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-09-01 with total page 537 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Milton (1608-1674) is best known as the author of the masterful epic retelling of fall of man, Paradise Lost. But he was more than just the 17th century voice of Satan. Wise and witty scholar Anna Beer traces his literary roots to a youthful passion for ancient verse, especially Ovid. She also rounds out parts of his life that have been, until now, little studied. Milton was deeply involved in the political and religious controversies of his time, writing a series of pamphlets on free speech, divorce, and religious, political and social rights that forced a complete rethinking of the nature and practice not only of government, but of human freedom itself. He struggled to survive through Cromwell's rise to power, chaotic reign and death, and then the restoration of the monarchy. Milton's personal life was just as rich and complex as his professional, and here it receives a fresh assessment. For centuries, he has emerged from biographies either as a woman-hating domestic tyrant or as a saintly figure removed from the messy business of personal affections. While Milton was probably a touch tyrant and saint, Beer suggests he also suffered lifelong heartache at the untimely death of his intimate friend Charles Diodati, with whom he was likely in love. Milton's context, from religious persecution to institutional turmoil to sexual politics, is as central to the book as Milton himself. With extensive new research, Milton emerges from Anna Beer's ground-breaking biography for the first time as a fully rounded human being.

Author : Walter Scott
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lay of the Last Minstrel written by Walter Scott and published by . This book was released on 1805 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Country Curate
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Patriot Poet, a Satire. Inscribed to the Reverend Mr. Ch-----ll. By a Country Curate written by Country Curate and published by . This book was released on 1764 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William Wordsworth
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Patriotic Poetry of William Wordsworth written by William Wordsworth and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ilan Stavans
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0374533180
Total Pages : 769 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The FSG Book of Twentieth-Century Latin American Poetry written by Ilan Stavans and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2012-03-27 with total page 769 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a diverse sample of twentieth century Latin American poems from eighty-four authors in Spanish, Portuguese, Ladino, Spanglish, and several indigenous languages with English translations on facing pages.

Author : Jorge A. Marbán
Publisher : FriesenPress
ISBN 13 : 1460237021
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Confederate Patriot, Journalist, and Poet: written by Jorge A. Marbán and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: José Agustín Quintero (1829-1885) was a Cuban American from New Orleans, Louisiana who skillfully and energetically represented the Confederacy in northeastern Mexico during the Civil War. This dynamic multilingual leader helped coordinate the defensive plans necessary to protect the Texas border and insure the procurement of war material and provisions vital to the Southern Army. He is a relatively unknown but fascinating figure in many ways: a native of Cuba who participated in his country’s struggle for independence against Spain, an outstanding writer of Cuban patriotic poetry, and an American who was highly respected and recognized for his legal and journalistic accomplishments, as well as his significant diplomatic contributions to the Southern Cause. This is the story of a man of extraordinary culture, an extremely intelligent, capable, and determined immigrant who believed passionately in a cause and dedicated much of his short life to it.