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Languages : en
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ALFRED LORD TENNYSON
Author: The Lady of Shalott
Author: Alfred Tennyson Baron TennysonPublisher:
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Category : Arthurian romances
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
A narrative poem about the death of Elaine, "the lily maid of Astolat".
The Floweret
Author: Anna Maria WellsPublisher:
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Category : Children's poetry, American
Languages : en
Pages : 88
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Locksley Hall
Author: Alfred Tennyson Baron TennysonPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 86
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Franklin Evans, Or The Inebriate
Author: Walt WhitmanPublisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822339427
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
DIVA reprint of a novel and other temperance writings by Walt Whitman, with an introduction and explanatory notes by the editors./div
Published Poems
Author: Herman MelvillePublisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 0810111128
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 961
Book Description
Although he surprised the world in 1866 with his first published book of poetry, Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War, Herman Melville had long been steeped in poetry. This new offering in the authoritative Northwestern-Newberry series, The Writings of Herman Melville, with a historical note by Hershel Parker, is testament to Melville the poet. Penultimate in the publication of the series, Published Poems follows the release of Melville’s verse epic, Clarel (1876), and with it, contains the entirety of the poems published during Melville’s lifetime: Battle-Pieces, as well as John Marr and Other Sailors, with Some Sea-Pieces (1888), and Timoleon Etc. (1891). Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War has long been recognized as a great contribution to the poetry of the Civil War, comparable only to Whitman’s Drum-Taps. Its idiosyncrasies, many of them grounded in British poetry, kept it from immediate popularity, but it was not the production of a novice. Melville had made himself over into a poet in the late 1850s and had tried to publish a previous collection of poetry—now lost—in 1860. John Marr and Other Sailors is a retrospective nautical book. Its portraits of sailors were influenced by Melville’s own experience of aging as well as by his long acquaintance with wasted mariners at the Sailors’ Snug Harbor on Staten Island, where his brother was governor. The book modulates into "Sea-Pieces," including the grisly "Maldive Shark" and "To Ned," a powerful reflection on how Melville’s personal adventures with the Typee islanders in 1842 had accrued rich historical significance over the decades. Thematically less unified, Timoleon Etc. contains poems with many European and exotic settings from ancient to modern times. The most famous are "After the Pleasure Party" and "The Age of the Antonines." Published in the last year of Melville’s life, some of the poems were first written many years earlier; for example, Melville copied "The Age of the Antonines" out for his brother-in-law in 1877, describing it as something found in a bundle of old papers. One whole section seems to have been almost entirely salvaged from the unpublished 1860 volume of poetry. As with the other volumes in the Northwestern-Newberry series, the aim of this edition of Published Poems is to present a text as close to the author’s intention as surviving evidence permits. To that end, the editorial appendix includes a historical note by Hershel Parker, the dean of Melville scholars, which gives a compelling, in-depth account of how one of America’s greatest writers grew into the vocation of a poet; an essay by G. Thomas Tanselle on the printing and publishing history of the works in Published Poems; a textual record that identifies the copy-texts for the present edition and explains the editorial policy; and substantial scholarly notes on individual poems.
Poems on Slavery
Author: Henry Wadsworth LongfellowPublisher:
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Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 52
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Poems of 1842
Author: Alfred Tennyson Baron TennysonPublisher: Trans-Atlantic Publications
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Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 400
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The Fountain
Author: William Cullen BryantPublisher:
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Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 112
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Tennyson and Mid-Victorian Publishing
Author: Jim CheshirePublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137338156
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
This book examines how Tennyson’s career was mediated, organised and directed by the publishing industry. Founded on neglected archival material, it examines the scale and distribution of Tennyson’s book sales in Britain and America, the commercial logic of publishing poetry, and how illustrated gift books and visual culture both promoted and interrogated the Poet Laureate and his life. Major publishers had become disillusioned with poetry by the time that Edward Moxon founded his business in 1830 but by the mid-1860s, his firm presided over a resurgence in poetry based on Tennyson’s work. Moxon not only orchestrated Tennyson’s rise to fame but was a major influence on how the Victorian public experienced the poetry of the Romantic period. This study reevaluates his crucial role, and examines how he repackaged poetry for the Victorian public.