The American Puritan Elegy
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| Author | : Jeffrey A. Hammond |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 282 |
| Release | : 2000-06-01 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1139429779 |
Jeffrey Hammond's study takes an anthropological approach to the most popular form of poetry in early New England - the funeral elegy. Hammond reconstructs the historical, theological and cultural contexts of these poems to demonstrate how they responded to a specific process of mourning defined by Puritan views on death and grief. The elegies emerge, he argues not as 'poems' to be read and appreciated in a post-romantic sense, but as performative scripts that consoled readers by shaping their experience of loss in accordance with theological expectation. Read in the framework of their own time and place, the elegies shed light on the emotional dimension of Puritanism and the important role of ritual in Puritan culture. Hammond's book reassesses a body of poems whose importance on their own time has been obscured by almost total neglect in ours. It represents the first full-length study of its kind in English.
| Author | : Safe Driver A. D. I. |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 282 |
| Release | : 2000 |
| Genre | : American poetry |
| ISBN | : 9780511303661 |
Jeffrey Hammond's study of the funeral elegies of early New England reassesses a body of poems whose importance in their own time has been obscured by neglect in ours. Hammond reconstructs the historical, theological and cultural contexts of these poems to shed new light on the emotional dimension of Puritanism.
| Author | : Safe Driver A. D. I. |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 282 |
| Release | : 2000 |
| Genre | : American poetry |
| ISBN | : 9781107118546 |
Jeffrey Hammond's study of the funeral elegies of early New England reassesses a body of poems whose importance in their own time has been obscured by neglect in ours. Hammond reconstructs the historical, theological and cultural contexts of these poems to shed new light on the emotional dimension of Puritanism.
| Author | : Max Cavitch |
| Publisher | : U of Minnesota Press |
| Total Pages | : 363 |
| Release | : |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 1452909180 |
The most widely practiced and read form of verse in America, “elegies are poems about being left behind,” writes Max Cavitch. American Elegy is the history of a diverse people’s poetic experience of mourning and of mortality’s profound challenge to creative living. By telling this history in political, psychological, and aesthetic terms, American Elegy powerfully reconnects the study of early American poetry to the broadest currents of literary and cultural criticism. Cavitch begins by considering eighteenth-century elegists such as Franklin, Bradstreet, Mather, Wheatley, Freneau, and Annis Stockton, highlighting their defiance of boundaries—between public and private, male and female, rational and sentimental—and demonstrating how closely intertwined the work of mourning and the work of nationalism were in the revolutionary era. He then turns to elegy’s adaptations during the market-driven Jacksonian age, including more obliquely elegiac poems like those of William Cullen Bryant and the popular child elegies of Emerson, Lydia Sigourney, and others. Devoting unprecedented attention to the early African-American elegy, Cavitch discusses poems written by free blacks and slaves, as well as white abolitionists, seeing in them the development of an African-American genealogical imagination. In addition to a major new reading of Whitman’s great elegy for Lincoln, “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d,” Cavitch takes up less familiar passages from Whitman as well as Melville’s and Lazarus’s poems following Lincoln’s death. American Elegy offers critical and often poignant insights into the place of mourning in American culture. Cavitch examines literary responses to historical events—such as the American Revolution, Native American removal, African-American slavery, and the Civil War—and illuminates the states of loss, hope, desire, and love in American studies today. Max Cavitch is assistant professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania.
| Author | : Jeffrey A. Hammond |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 282 |
| Release | : 2000-06-01 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1139429779 |
Jeffrey Hammond's study takes an anthropological approach to the most popular form of poetry in early New England - the funeral elegy. Hammond reconstructs the historical, theological and cultural contexts of these poems to demonstrate how they responded to a specific process of mourning defined by Puritan views on death and grief. The elegies emerge, he argues not as 'poems' to be read and appreciated in a post-romantic sense, but as performative scripts that consoled readers by shaping their experience of loss in accordance with theological expectation. Read in the framework of their own time and place, the elegies shed light on the emotional dimension of Puritanism and the important role of ritual in Puritan culture. Hammond's book reassesses a body of poems whose importance on their own time has been obscured by almost total neglect in ours. It represents the first full-length study of its kind in English.
| Author | : Alan Shucard |
| Publisher | : Macmillan Reference USA |
| Total Pages | : 232 |
| Release | : 1988 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : |
A critical history of American poetry from the seventeenth century to the late nineteenth century.
| Author | : Peter White |
| Publisher | : University Park : Pennsylvania State University Press |
| Total Pages | : 368 |
| Release | : 1985 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : |
The first comprehensive and integrated critical survey of colonial American poetry, this book focuses on the New England Puritans, who produced the most notable poets, relating them contextually to writers of the Middle Atlantic and Southern colonies and to their European forebears. Following a general introduction by the editor, the book's three parts present: first, the social and aesthetic context in which the poets worked; second, the individual achievements of nine of the most successful poets; thin the varied forms the poets used sacred and profane, serious and humorous, formal and informal.
| Author | : Michael J. Colacurcio |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2006 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 9780268159221 |
Colacurcio analyzes the works of first-generation American Puritans, focusing on this early literature of "godly letters" in rhetorical, theological, and political terms.
| Author | : Sister Mary Scholastica Cooper |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 278 |
| Release | : 1956 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Perry Miller |
| Publisher | : Ravenio Books |
| Total Pages | : 387 |
| Release | : 1956 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : |
Perry Miller was born in Chicago on February 25, 1905. He was educated at the University of Chicago where he received his Ph.D. degree in 1931. Since then Mr. Miller taught at Harvard University and in 1946 became a Professor of American Literature there. He died in 1963. He was the author of Orthodoxy in Massachusetts (1933); The New England Mind (1939); Jonathan Edwards (1949); Roger Williams (1953); The Raven and the Whale (1956); and Errand into the Wilderness (1956). This anthology is organized as follows: Foreword Chapter One. History 1. William Bradford, 1590-1657 Of Plymouth Plantation 2. Thomas Shepard, 1605-1649 A Defense of the Answer 3. Edward Johnson, 1598-1672 Wonder-Working Providence of Sion’s Savior 4. John Winthrop, 1588-1649 Journal 5. John Winthrop, 1588-1649 The Antinomian Crisis 6. Cotton Mather, 1663-1728 A General Introduction Chapter Two. State and Society 1. John Winthrop, 1588-1649 A Model of Christian Charity 2. John Cotton, 1584-1652 Limitation of Government 3. Thomas Hooker, 1586-1647 Hartford Election Sermon 4. John Winthrop, 1588-1649 Speech to the General Court 5. Nathaniel Ward, 1578-1652 The Simple Cobler of Aggawam 6. Jonathan Mitchell, 1624-1668 Nehemiah on the Wall 7. William Stoughton, 1631-1701 New England’s True Interest 8. William Hubbard, 1621-1704 The Happiness of a People 9. John Wise, 1652-1725 Vindication of the Government of New England Churches 10. Jonathan Mayhew, 1720-1766 A Discourse Concerning Unlimited Submission Chapter Three. This World and the Next 1. Thomas Shepard, 1605-1649 The Covenant of Grace 2. Peter Bulkeley, 1583-1659 The Lesson of the Covenant, for England and New England 3. Thomas Hooker, 1586-1647 A True Sight of Sin 4. Thomas Hooker, 1586-1647 Repentant Sinners and Their Ministers 5. John Cotton, 1584-1652 Christian Calling 6. Increase Mather, 1639-1723 Man Knows Not His Time 7. Urian Oakes, 1631-1681 The Sovereign Efficacy of Divine Providence 8. Samuel Sewall, 1652-1730 Phaenomena 9. Cotton Mather, 1663-1728 Bonifacius 10. Solomon Stoddard, 1643-1729 Concerning Ancestors Chapter Four. Personal Narrative 1. Thomas Shepard, 1605-1649 Autobiography 2. Increase Mather, 1639-1723 Richard Mather 3. Samuel Sewall, 1652-1730 Diary 4. John Williams, 1664-1729 The Redeemed Captive Chapter Five. Poetry 1. Anne Bradstreet, 1612-1672 Several Poems 2. Anne Bradstreet, 1612-1672 Meditations 3. Michael Wigglesworth, 1631-1705 The Day of Doom 4. Michael Wigglesworth, 1631-1705 God’s Controversy With New England 5. E.B. A Threnodia 6. Edward Taylor, 1645?-1729 God’s Determinations Touching His Elect 7. Edward Taylor, 1645?-1729 Poems and Sacramental Meditations Chapter Six. Literary and Educational Ideals 1. Richard Mather, 1596-1669 The Bay Psalm Book 2. New England’s First Fruits New England’s First Fruits 3. Michael Wigglesworth, 1631-1705 The Praise of Eloquence 4. Cotton Mather, 1663-1728 Of Style
