Poems on Slavery
Author | : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 52 |
Release | : 1842 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 52 |
Release | : 1842 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
Author | : James G. Basker |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 779 |
Release | : 2002-01-01 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 0300091729 |
"This volume is the first anthology of poetic writings on slavery from America, Britain, and around the Atlantic during the Enlightenment - the crucial period that saw the height of the slave trade but also the origins of the anti-slavery movement. Bringing together more than four hundred poems and excerpts from longer works that were written by more than two hundred and fifty poets, both famous and unknown, the book charts the emergence of slavery as part of the collective consciousness of the English-speaking world. The book includes: poems by forty women, ranging from abolitionists Hannah More and Mary Robinson to Frances Seymour, the Countess of Herford; works by more than twenty African or African American poets, including familiar names (Phillis Wheatley), intriguing figures (Afro-Dutch Latin scholar Johannes Capitein), and newly rediscovered black poets (an anonymous veteran of the Revolutionary War); and poetry by such canonical writers as Dryden, Defoe, Pope, Johnson, Blake, Boswell, Burns, Wordsworth, and Coleridge." "The poems speak of the themes of slavery: capture, torture, endurance, rebellion, thwarted romances, and spiritual longing. They also raise intriguing questions about the contradications between cultural attitudes and public policy of the time. Writers such as these, suggests editor James Basker, were not complicit in the imperial project or indifferent about slavery but actually laid the groundwork for the political changes that would follow."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Author | : Cynthia Grady |
Publisher | : Eerdmans Young Readers |
Total Pages | : 20 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 0802853862 |
Mirroring the structure of a quilt, this volume of poems are built in three layers, representing biblical/spiritual reference, musical reference, and references to sewing/quilting itself. These are the poems of American slavery."--
Author | : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 58 |
Release | : 1842 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Phillis Wheatley |
Publisher | : Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | : 98 |
Release | : 2012-03-15 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 0486115291 |
At the age of 19, Phillis Wheatley was the first black American poet to publish a book. Her elegies and odes offer fascinating glimpses of the beginnings of African-American literary traditions. Includes a selection from the Common Core State Standards Initiative.
Author | : Marcus Wood |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 772 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780198187097 |
This is the first book to collect the most important works of poetry generated by English and North American slavery. Mixing poetry by the major Anglo-American Romantic poets (Blake, Coleridge, Wordsworth, Shelley, Keats, Whittier, Longfellow, Lowell, Whitman, Melville, Dickinson) with curious, and sometimes brilliant verse by a range of now forgotten literary figures, the anthology is designed to aid students and teachers address the Anglo-American cultural inheritance of slavery.
Author | : John Greenleaf Whittier |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 396 |
Release | : 1892 |
Genre | : Slavery |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
Publisher | : CreateSpace |
Total Pages | : 24 |
Release | : 2015-07-18 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781515127611 |
Longfellow experimented with many forms, including hexameter and free verse. His published poetry shows great versatility, using anapestic and trochaic forms, blank verse, heroic couplets, ballads and sonnets. Typically, Longfellow would carefully consider the subject of his poetic ideas for a long time before deciding on the right metrical form for it. Much of his work is recognized for its melody-like musicality. As he says, "what a writer asks of his reader is not so much to like as to listen." As a very private man, Longfellow did not often add autobiographical elements to his poetry. Two notable exceptions are dedicated to the death of members of his family. "Resignation," written as a response to the death of his daughter Fanny in 1848, does not use first-person pronouns and is instead a generalized poem of mourning. The death of his second wife Frances, as biographer Charles Calhoun wrote, deeply affected Longfellow personally but "seemed not to touch his poetry, at least directly." His memorial poem to her, a sonnet called "The Cross of Snow," was not published in his lifetime. Longfellow often used didacticism in his poetry, though he focused on it less in his later years. Much of his poetry imparts cultural and moral values, particularly focused on promoting life as being more than material pursuits. Longfellow also often used allegory in his work. In "Nature," for example, death is depicted as bedtime for a cranky child. Many of the metaphors he used in his poetry as well as subject matter came from legends, mythology, and literature.