Download or read book Quaker Poems written by Charles Francis Jenkins and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Quaker Poems written by Stanford J. Searl, Jr. and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-03-04 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Selected Poems of Bernard Barton the Quaker Poet written by Christopher Stokes and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book A Book of Quaker Poems 1652 1900 written by Simon Webb and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-05-31 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Mary Dyer s Hymn and Other Quaker Poems written by Stanford Searl and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-22 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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)
Download or read book Selected Poems of Bernard Barton the Quaker Poet written by Christopher Stokes and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The Collected Poems of Jean Toomer written by Robert B. Jones and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2014-02-01 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Narrative and Legendary Poems written by John Greenleaf Whittier and published by IndyPublish.com. This book was released on 1892 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Occasional Poems written by John Greenleaf Whittier and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2018-04-05 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: Occasional Poems by John Greenleaf Whittier
Download or read book Quaker poems written by and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Poems of Nature written by John Greenleaf Whittier and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2018-04-05 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: Poems of Nature by John Greenleaf Whittier
Download or read book The Quaker Cellist written by Sylvia Spotts and published by . This book was released on 2015-12-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SYLVIA KELSEY SPOTTS was bornin Connecticut on April 14, 1936.Her parents, both artists and Quakers,encouraged Sylvia's interest in musicand interest in Quakerism. She attendedGeorge School, a Quaker boardinghigh-school in Philadelphia. After highschoolSylvia attended Hartt Collegeof Music in Hartford, Ct. During heryears at Hartt College, she met CarletonSpotts, a cellist. They married in 1958 in Connecticut.They soon moved to Columbia, Mo., where Carle served,for many years as a professor in the music department atthe University of Missouri. Their two sons were born inColumbia, Mo. When the children were young, Sylviabegan teaching orchestra classes at local public schools. Shelater gave private cello lessons and played in the UniversityOrchestra. During these years the family grew a large gardenthat provided most of the family's produce.Soon after making Columbia her home, Sylvia was involvedin the establishment of the Columbia Friends (Quaker)Meeting that still serves the local Quaker community today.Sylvia has always enjoyed writing, both poetry andprose. She began writing poems when the childrenwere in grade school.Carle died in 2014 after a short illness.Sylvia has used her Quaker beliefs anddeep love to keep Carle's memory acontinuing part of her life while alsoletting him go.The selected poems in this volume givethe reader a sense of ever present wonderabout nature, life and death while often showing Sylvia'svery active wit and sense of humor.
Download or read book Narrative and Legendary Poems written by John Greenleaf Whittier and published by Dodo Press. This book was released on 2008-03-01 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892) was an influential American Quaker poet and ardent advocate of the abolition of slavery in the United States. Although he received little formal education, he was an avid reader who studied his father's six books on Quakerism until their teachings became the foundation of his ideology. He was heavily influenced by the doctrines of his religion, particularly its stress on humanitarianism, compassion, and social responsibility. First introduced to poetry by a teacher, Whittier published his first poem in 1826 in William Lloyd Garrison's Newburyport Free Press. In June of 1833, he published the antislavery pamphlet Justice and Expediency, and from there dedicated the next twenty years of his life to the abolitionist cause. He was editor of The National Era; one of the most influential abolitionist newspapers in the North. For the next ten years it featured the best of his writing, both as prose and poetry. His works include: At Sundown (1890), Anti-Slavery Poems, My Summer With Dr. Singletary, Criticism, Historical Papers, Margaret Smith's Journal and The Bridal of Pennacook .
Download or read book Poems written by John Greenleaf Whittier and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Poems written by Bernard Barton and published by . This book was released on 1821 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Narrative and Legendary Poems Among the Hills and Others written by John Greenleaf Whittier and published by . This book was released on 2008-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892) was an influential American Quaker poet and ardent advocate of the abolition of slavery in the United States. Although he received little formal education, he was an avid reader who studied his father's six books on Quakerism until their teachings became the foundation of his ideology. He was heavily influenced by the doctrines of his religion, particularly its stress on humanitarianism, compassion, and social responsibility. First introduced to poetry by a teacher, Whittier published his first poem in 1826 in William Lloyd Garrison's Newburyport Free Press. In June of 1833, he published the antislavery pamphlet Justice and Expediency, and from there dedicated the next twenty years of his life to the abolitionist cause. He was editor of The National Era; one of the most influential abolitionist newspapers in the North. For the next ten years it featured the best of his writing, both as prose and poetry. His works include: At Sundown (1890), Anti-Slavery Poems, My Summer With Dr. Singletary, Criticism, Historical Papers, Margaret Smith's Journal and The Bridal of Pennacook .
Download or read book The Pennsylvania Pilgrim and Other Poems by John Greenleaf Whittier written by John Greenleaf Whittier and published by University of Michigan Library. This book was released on 1872 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
