Download or read book Poems of John James Piatt written by John James Piatt and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Poems of John James Piatt written by John James Piatt and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Poems of House and Home written by and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Landmarks the Lost Farm and Other Poems by John James Piatt written by John James Piatt and published by University of Michigan Library. This book was released on 1877 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Poems of John James Piatt written by John James Piatt and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1868 edition. Excerpt: ...I seem to bear In Autumn's funeral train. 106 THE GOLDEN HAND. Lo, from the city's heat and dust A Golden Hand forever thrust, Uplifting from a spire on high A shining finger in the sky! I see it when the morning brings Fresh tides of life to living things, And the great world awakes: behold, That lifted Hand in morning gold! I see it when the noontide beats Pulses of fire in busy streets; The dust flies in the flaming air: Above, that quiet Hand is there. I see it when the twilight clings To the dark earth with hovering wings Flashing with the last fluttering ray, That Golden Hand remembers day. THE GOLDEN HAND. The midnight comes--the holy hour; The city like a giant flower Sleeps full of dew: that Hand, in light Of moon and stars, how weirdly bright! Below, in many a noisy street Are toiling hands and striving feet; The weakest rise, the strongest fall: That equal Hand is over all. Below, in courts to guard the land, Gold buys the tongue and binds the hand Stealing in God's great scales the gold, That awful Hand, above, behold! Below, the Sabbaths walk serene With the great dust of Days between; Preachers within their pulpits stand: See, over all, that heavenly Hand! But the hot dust, in crowded air Below, arises never there: 0 speech of one who cannot speak! O Sabbath-witness of the Week! THE GRAVE-ANGEL. In the moonlight, on the tombstone, Stands the Sculptor's marble dream: From its face its soul is lifted, And its wings soul-lifted seem. On the tombstone stands the Angel, And its left hand points below; To its lips is press'd a finger: 'T is the Angel Death, I know. 109 THE BURIED RING. Across the door-step, worn and old, The new bride, joyous, pass'd to-day; The gray rooms show'd an artful gold, All words were light, all faces...
Download or read book Poems of John James Piatt written by John James Piatt and published by . This book was released on 2016-05-17 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Idyls and Lyrics of the Ohio Valley by John James Piatt written by John James Piatt and published by University of Michigan Library. This book was released on 1881 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Landmarks the Lost Farm and Other Poems by John James Piatt written by John James] [Piatt and published by . This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Poets in the Public Sphere written by Paula Bernat Bennett and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-03-09 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based entirely on archival research, Poets in the Public Sphere traces the emergence of the "New Woman" by examining poetry published by American women in newspapers and magazines between 1800 and 1900. Using sources like the Kentucky Reporter, the Cherokee Phoenix, the Cincinnati Israelite, and the Atlantic Monthly, Bennett is able to track how U.S. women from every race, class, caste, region, and religion exploited the freedom offered by the nation's periodical press, especially the poetry columns, to engage in heated debate with each other and with men over matters of mutual concern. Far from restricting their poems to the domestic and personal, these women addressed a significant array of political issues--abolition, Indian removals, economic and racial injustice, the Civil War, and, not least, their own changing status as civil subjects. Overflowing with a wealth of heretofore untapped information, their poems demonstrate conclusively that "ordinary" nineteenth-century women were far more influenced by the women's rights movement than historians have allowed. In showing how these women turned the sentimental and ideologically saturated conventions of the period's verse to their own ends, Bennett argues passionately and persuasively for poetry's power as cultural and political discourse. As much women's history as literary history, this book invites readers to rethink not only the role that nineteenth-century women played in their own emancipation but the role that poetry plays in cultural life.
Download or read book Palace Burner written by Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The unique and powerful voice of an extraordinary nineteenth-century woman poet Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt (1836-1919) now ranks as the strongest American woman poet of the nineteenth century after Emily Dickinson. Published heavily in all the period's most prestigious journals, Piatt was widely celebrated by her peers as a gifted stylist in the genteel tradition. This selected edition reveals Piatt's other side, a side that contemporary critics found more problematic: ironic, experimental, pushing the limits of Victorian language and the sentimental female persona. Spanning more than half a century, this collection reveals the "borderland temper" of Piatt's mind and art. As an expatriate southerner, Piatt voices guilt at her own past as the daughter of slave-holders and raw anguish at the waste of war; as an eleven-year "exile" in Ireland, she expresses her dismay at the indifference of the wealthy to the daily suffering of the poor. Her poetry, whether speaking of children, motherhood, marriage, or illicit love affairs, uses conventional language and forms but in ways that greatly broadened the range of what women's poetry could say. Going beyond and even contradicting the genteel aesthetic, Piatt's poetry moves toward an innovative kind of dramatic realism built on dialogue, an approach more familiar to modern readers, acquainted with Faulknerian polyvocal texts, than to her contemporaries, who were as ill at ease with complexity as they were with irony. This astutely edited selection of Piatt's mature work--much of it never before collected--explains why her "deviant poetics" caused her peers such discomfort and why they offer such fertile ground for study today. Illustrated with engravings from Harper's Weekly and Harper's Bazaar, both periodicals in which Piatt's work appeared, Palace-Burner marks the reemergence of one of the most interesting writers in American literary history.
Download or read book Encyclopedia of American Poetry The Nineteenth Century written by Eric L. Haralson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-21 with total page 551 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With contributions from over 100 scholars, the Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The Nineteenth Centry provides essays on the careers, works, and backgrounds of more than 100 nineteenth-century poets. It also provides entries on specialized categories of twentieth-century verse such as hymns, folk ballads, spirituals, Civil War songs, and Native American poetry. Besides presenting essential factual information, each entry amounts to an in-depth critical essay, and includes a bibliography that directs readers to other works by and about a particular poet.
Download or read book The Americana written by and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 950 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book American Poetry 19th Century 2 written by John Hollander and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 1995 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2004. From Philip Freneau to Walt Whitman, Herman Melville to Trumbull Stickney, this collection of two volumes, selected by John Hollander, gives an insight into the artform during the nineteenth century. This collection is sorted by author with focus on American Indian Poetry, Folk Songs and Spirituals. An extensive list of works with attention to their chronology and editor notes on the texts within.
Download or read book Poets in the Public Sphere written by Paula Bennett and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2003-04-06 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based entirely on archival research, Poets in the Public Sphere traces the emergence of the "New Woman" by examining poetry published by American women in newspapers and magazines between 1800 and 1900. Using sources like the Kentucky Reporter, the Cherokee Phoenix, the Cincinnati Israelite, and the Atlantic Monthly, Bennett is able to track how U.S. women from every race, class, caste, region, and religion exploited the freedom offered by the nation's periodical press, especially the poetry columns, to engage in heated debate with each other and with men over matters of mutual concern. Far from restricting their poems to the domestic and personal, these women addressed a significant array of political issues--abolition, Indian removals, economic and racial injustice, the Civil War, and, not least, their own changing status as civil subjects. Overflowing with a wealth of heretofore untapped information, their poems demonstrate conclusively that "ordinary" nineteenth-century women were far more influenced by the women's rights movement than historians have allowed. In showing how these women turned the sentimental and ideologically saturated conventions of the period's verse to their own ends, Bennett argues passionately and persuasively for poetry's power as cultural and political discourse. As much women's history as literary history, this book invites readers to rethink not only the role that nineteenth-century women played in their own emancipation but the role that poetry plays in cultural life.
Download or read book Lamb s Biographical Dictionary of the United States written by John Howard Brown and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans written by Rossiter Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Battle Lines written by Eliza Richards and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2018-10-02 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the U.S. Civil War, a combination of innovative technologies and catastrophic events stimulated the development of news media into a central cultural force. Reacting to the dramatic increases in news reportage and circulation, poets responded to an urgent need to make their work immediately relevant to current events. As poetry's compressed forms traveled more quickly and easily than stories, novels, or essays through ephemeral print media, it moved alongside and engaged with news reports, often taking on the task of imagining the mental states of readers on receiving accounts from the war front. Newspaper and magazine poetry had long editorialized on political happenings—Indian wars, slavery and abolition, prison reform, women's rights—but the unprecedented scope of what has been called the first modern war, and the centrality of the issues involved for national futures, generated a powerful sense of single-mindedness among readers and writers that altered the terms of poetic expression. In Battle Lines, Eliza Richards charts the transformation of Civil War poetry, arguing that it was fueled by a symbiotic relationship between the development of mass media networks and modern warfare. Focusing primarily on the North, Richards explores how poets working in this new environment mediated events via received literary traditions. Collectively and with a remarkable consistency, poems pulled out key features of events and drew on common tropes and practices to mythologize, commemorate, and ponder the consequences of distant battles. The lines of communication reached outward through newspapers and magazines to writers such as Dickinson, Whitman, and Melville, who drew their inspiration from their peers' poetic practices and reconfigured them in ways that bear the traces of their engagements.
