Author: Joel BarlowPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
The Vision of Columbus
Author: Joel BarlowThe Columbiad
Author: Joel BarlowPublisher: IndyPublish.com
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
Joel Barlow
Author: Richard . BuelPublisher: Johns Hopkins University Press+ORM
ISBN: 1421401584
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 447
Book Description
An in-depth look at the life and times of the early American poet and polemicist. Poet, republican, diplomat, and entrepreneur, Joel Barlow filled many roles and registered impressive accomplishments. In the first biography of this fascinating figure in decades, Richard Buel Jr. recounts the life of a man more intimately connected to the Age of Revolution than perhaps any other American. Barlow was a citizen of the revolutionary world, and his adventures throughout the United States and Europe during both the American and French Revolutions are numerous and notorious. From writing his epic poem, The Vision of Columbus, to plotting a republican revolution in Britain to negotiating the release of American sailors taken captive by Barbary pirates, Joel Barlow personified the true spirit of the tumultuous times in which he lived. No one witnessed more climactic events or interacted with more significant people than Joel Barlow. His unique vision, his unfailing belief in republicanism, and his entrepreneurial spirit drove him to pursue the revolutionary ideal in a way more emblematic of the age than the lives of many of its prominent heroes. In telling Barlow’s story, Buel explores the cultural landscape of the early American republic and engages the broader themes of the Age of Revolution. Few books explore in such a comprehensive fashion the political, economic, ideological, diplomatic, and technological dimensions of this defining moment in world history. “No earlier biographer has given nearly as detailed and rich a portrait of Barlow’s perhaps singularly expansive role in the cultural life, commerce, politics, and intrigue of the age of revolution.” —TheGuardian (UK)
The Vision of Columbus
Author: Joel BarlowPublisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781021056658
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This book is a poem by Joel Barlow which describes the vision and travels of Christopher Columbus. It is a valuable resource for students of American literature and history. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Skins of Columbus
Author: Edgar GarciaPublisher: Fence Books
ISBN: 9781944380106
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
What happens when a dreamer explores perverse and imperfect origins? An anthropoetic meditation on colonial racial violence in Central America.
Joel Barlow
Author: Peter P. HillPublisher: Potomac Books, Inc.
ISBN: 1597977721
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 387
Book Description
The fascinating biography of one of America's most colorful diplomats
The Vision of Columbus; a poem
Author: Joel BarlowHart Crane's Poetry
Author: John T. IrwinPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421402211
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 439
Book Description
In one of his letters Hart Crane wrote, "Appollinaire lived in Paris, I live in Cleveland, Ohio," comparing—misspelling and all—the great French poet’s cosmopolitan roots to his own more modest ones in the midwestern United States. Rebelling against the notion that his work should relate to some European school of thought, Crane defiantly asserted his freedom to be himself, a true American writer. John T. Irwin, long a passionate and brilliant critic of Crane, gives readers the first major interpretation of the poet’s work in decades. Irwin aims to show that Hart Crane’s epic The Bridge is the best twentieth-century long poem in English. Irwin convincingly argues that, compared to other long poems of the century, The Bridge is the richest and most wide-ranging in its mythic and historical resonances, the most inventive in its combination of literary and visual structures, the most subtle and compelling in its psychological underpinnings. Irwin brings a wealth of new and varied scholarship to bear on his critical reading of the work—from art history to biography to classical literature to philosophy—revealing The Bridge to be the near-perfect synthesis of American myth and history that Crane intended. Irwin contends that the most successful entryway to Crane’s notoriously difficult shorter poems is through a close reading of The Bridge. Having admirably accomplished this, Irwin analyzes Crane’s poems in White Buildings and his last poem, "The Broken Tower," through the larger context of his epic, showing how Crane, in the best of these, worked out the structures and images that were fully developed in The Bridge. Thoughtful, deliberate, and extraordinarily learned, this is the most complete and careful reading of Crane’s poetry available. Hart Crane may have lived in Cleveland, Ohio, but, as Irwin masterfully shows, his poems stand among the greatest written in the English language.
The Vision of Columbus
Author: Joel BarlowJoel Barlow's Columbiad
Author: Steven BlakemorePublisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN: 9781572335639
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Steven Blakemore offers a close reading of The Columbiad within the context of contemporary national debates over the significance of America. In doing so, he helps the reader understand the variety of national discourses that Barlow was promoting, challenging, or subverting. Long neglected, The Columbiad fundamentally engages the core issues and strategies of national self-definition and the creation of a vital republican culture. This book will appeal to all those interested in early American literature, the literature of the early Republic, and American literary nationalism.