Author: Bayard TaylorPublisher:
ISBN: 9781418101770
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Poems of the Orient, by Bayard Taylor
Author: Bayard TaylorPublisher:
ISBN: 9781418101770
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Poems of the Orient
Author: Bayard TaylorPublisher: University of Michigan Library
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
POEMS OF THE ORIENT
Author: BAYARF TAYLORPoems of the Orient
Author: Bayard TaylorThe Poems of Bayard Taylor
Author: Bayard TaylorPoems of the Orient
Author: Bayard TaylorPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385464544
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.
The Poetry of the Orient
Author: William Rounseville AlgerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Poems of the Orient ... Fifth Edition
Author: Bayard TaylorThe Lands of the Saracen, Or, Pictures of Palestine, Asia Minor, Sicily, and Spain
Author: Bayard TaylorPublisher: IndyPublish.com
ISBN:
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
Bayard Taylor
Author: Liam CorleyPublisher: Bucknell University Press
ISBN: 161148572X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 229
Book Description
Bayard Taylor (1825–1878) was a nineteenth-century American who combined in his writings and career a catalog of accomplishments and creations that made him one of the most celebrated literary men of his time. The range and significance of Taylor’s oeuvre explains his growing importance today to scholars working in the fields of American studies, gender and queer theory, and the aesthetics of racial and class identities. In less than 35 years, he wrote seventeen volumes of poetry, four novels, eight critical works and translations of German classics, nineteen travel narratives, innumerable magazine essays, stories, and reviews, and thousands of letters to friends, admirers, hostile reviewers, business acquaintances, and intimate male companions. His extraordinary success on the public lecture circuit made him one of the best-known men of his day. Taylor's diplomatic career enhanced his reputation and influence as a travel writer and included service as a writer for the Perry Expedition to Japan, as a charge d’affaires to Russia during the Civil War, and ambassador to Germany in 1878. This analysis of Taylor’s life and works helps to explain three important shifts in American culture: the contradictory development of American ethnocentrism and cosmopolitanism in the nineteenth century; the impact of homophobia and homophilia upon American literary production, criticism, and culture; and the inspirational role played by poetry within a religious and economically-driven society. The introduction describes Taylor's changing fortunes within literary history and presents a methodological approach to the Genteel tradition that recovers its distinctive aesthetic and social values and explains how Taylor is its most winning and significant representative. Taylor was a key figure in the genealogy of American interactions with the Islamic world, and his travel writing demonstrates how individual advancement in an egalitarian society can be linked with aggressive imperialism abroad. Taylor’s novels display a subtle pattern of transgressive sexuality and demonstrate how Taylor's manipulation of reputation and genteel aesthetics created a space for individual expression and freedom. Taylor’s 1870 novel, Joseph and His Friend, is frequently cited as America's first gay novel. This book's analysis of Taylor’s poetry draws the strands of egalitarian racialization and male-male intimacy together with his abiding concern with regional American identities and the mixed influences of religious subcultures.