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Author: Charles Francis Jenkins
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Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 312

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Author: Stanford J. Searl, Jr.
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781494489175
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 136

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A collection of poems about Quaker worship, history, activism, and values. An intense, insightful, and vibrant presentation of Quaker life, it sings praise to the possibilities available through silence, waiting, and contemplation, and explores the drive for peace and love that propels the Quakers' spiritual travels.

Author: Christopher Stokes
Publisher: Anthem Press
ISBN: 1785274422
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 400

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The first ever modern edition of Bernard Barton’s selected verse, recovering an important and prolific figure from the Romantic era. Instantly recognisable to his contemporaries as ‘the Quaker poet’, Barton wrote nature and landscape poetry in a distinctive vein, as well as spanning strikingly diverse themes that engaged politics, society and religion. This selection encompasses all these tones and genres, providing freshly edited texts from the first printed sources, supplemented by textual apparatus, critical commentary and informative footnotes. The book also includes a selection of contextual material, including prefaces and reviews, as well as a selection of Barton’s lively epistolary correspondence. A substantial scholarly essay serves as the introduction, describing Barton’s life and career, as well as analysing his uniquely Quaker poetic identity in its full literary and historical context.

Author: Simon Webb
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781533592347
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Languages : en
Pages : 70

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Quakers have been writing poetry about their extraordinary faith and way of life since the beginning of the Society of Friends, in the middle of the seventeenth century. This book brings together poems about Quakerism by Quakers and non-Quakers from the first 250 years of the Society. With introduction and notes.

Author: Stanford Searl
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781948461368
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 48

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Mary Dyer's Hymn and other Quaker Poems constructs poetic songs which open-up multiple dimensions of an embodied sensibility of the conflicts between Puritans and Quakers in 17th century Massachusetts. There are a number of themes as presented in these poems, including: - Many of the poems sing about how in 17th century Massachusetts, the embodied soul matters in Quaker writing, action and thinking. - Some of the poems enter into a visionary consciousness of 17th century Quaker men and one Quaker woman (Mary Dyer) who demonstrate what it meant to be a prophet and then a martyr as well. - At times, the poems present a satirical critique of key Puritan assumptions about how they thought that Quakers were dangerous heretics, aligned with Satanic impulses and thought that Quakers were possessed by error and sin. - Some of the poems illustrate how many of the Quaker prophets felt the immediate presence of the Divine or God through the experience of the indwelling Christ. - A few of the poems explore the imaginative, visionary relevance my 9th great-grandfather, a contemporary figure and his friend Roger Williams, both dissidents and founders of Rhode Island. - The poems offer visionary, expressive and expansive language drawn from the types and shadows of Old Testament prophets. - The poems illustrate the importance of Roger Williams and his vigorous dissent from the Puritan orthodoxy and his sympathy for the Narragansett native people. Early Praise: "Stanford Searl at his strongest, blending the themes of space, place, and memory, with the theme of Mary Dyer's martyrdom, part of his faith heritage. This is a collection that for all the Quaker silent prayer is musical and melodic." Ben Pink Dandelion, Professor of Quaker Studies, Woodbrooke "The compelling narrative contained in this delicate collection leaves me buoyed up and inspired by the joy and certitude to which these early Friends gave witness. I am already in Paradise." Deborah L. Shaw, Recorded Minister, Director Emeritus: Guilford College's Quaker Leadership Scholars Program "Are we willing, like Dyer, Leddra, Stephenson, and Robinson, to face the ultimate sacrifice for a good greater than ourselves? Or are we fated, as poet James Russell Lowell once penned, to see Truth forever on the scaffold, / Wrong forever on the throne? Searl not only asks the important question; he provides inspiring words for those who would learn from history." Max L. Carter, William R. Rogers Director of Friends Center and Quaker Studies at Guilford College (emeritus)

Author: Robert B. Jones
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469616416
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 148

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This volume is the only collected edition of poems by Jean Toomer, the enigmatic American writer, Gurdjieffian guru, and Quaker convert who is perhaps best known for his 1923 lyrical narrative Cane. The fifty-five poems here -- most of them previously unpublished -- chart a fascinating evolution of artistic consciousness. The book is divided into sections reflecting four distinct periods of creativity in Toomer's career. The Aesthetic period includes Imagist, Symbolist, and other experimental pieces, such as "Five Vignettes," while "Georgia Dusk" and the newly discovered poem "Tell Me" come from Toomer' s Ancestral Consciousness period in the early 1920s. "The Blue Meridian" and other Objective Consciousness poems reveal the influence of idealist philosopher Georges Gurdjieff. Among the works of this period the editor presents a group of local color poems picturing the landscape of the American Southwest, including "Imprint for Rio Grande." "It Is Everywhere," another newly discovered poem, celebrates America and democratic idealism. The Quaker religious philosophy of Toomer's final years is demonstrated in such Christian Existential works as "They Are Not Missed" and "To Gurdjieff Dying." Robert Jones's clear and comprehensive introduction examines the major poems in this volume and serves as a guide through the stages of Toomer's evolution as an artist and thinker. The Collected Poems of Jean Toomer will prove essential to Toomer's admirers as well as to scholars and students of modern poetry, Afro-American literature, and American studies.

Author: Christopher Stokes
Publisher: Anthem Press
ISBN: 1785274414
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 348

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The first ever modern edition of Bernard Barton’s selected verse, recovering an important and prolific figure from the Romantic era. Instantly recognisable to his contemporaries as ‘the Quaker poet’, Barton wrote nature and landscape poetry in a distinctive vein, as well as spanning strikingly diverse themes that engaged politics, society and religion. This selection encompasses all these tones and genres, providing freshly edited texts from the first printed sources, supplemented by textual apparatus, critical commentary and informative footnotes. The book also includes a selection of contextual material, including prefaces and reviews, as well as a selection of Barton’s lively epistolary correspondence. A substantial scholarly essay serves as the introduction, describing Barton’s life and career, as well as analysing his uniquely Quaker poetic identity in its full literary and historical context.

Author: John Greenleaf Whittier
Publisher: IndyPublish.com
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Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 456

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Author: John Greenleaf Whittier
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3732655806
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 58

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Reproduction of the original: Occasional Poems by John Greenleaf Whittier

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Category : Electronic book
Languages : en
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