Poetry of slavery an Anglo-American anthology, 1764-1865
Wood, Marcus2003
Book
Total copies: 2
Subject: '?The Poetry of Slavery' collects together the most important works of poetry generated by English and North American slavery from the mid-eighteenth to the mid-nineteenth centuries. Mixing poetry by the major Anglo-American Romantic poets including Blake, Coleridge, Wordsworth, Shelley, Whitman, Lowell, Whittier, Longfellow, and Dickinson with curious and sometimes brilliant verse by a range of now forgotten literary figures, this anthology is designed to aid students and teachers to address slavery's cultural inheritance in Britain and America. Distinguished by its formal variety, abolition publicity in general, and poetry in particular, drew on new publishing modes which became available during the period. Consequently, the poems come from a publishing base which takes in handbills, broadsides, print satire, song-sheet and chap-book songster, illustrated adult and children's books, children's toys, novels, slave testimony and narrative, and private manuscripts.
Author:
Edition:
1st ed
Imprint:
Oxford 2003 Oxford University Press
Collation:
704p
ISBN:
0198187092
Dewey class:
AR.2.03WOOAR.2.03/WOO
Local class:
AR.2.03/WOO
Language:
English
BRN:
1839239