Poems on Slavery
Author : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Publisher :
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 13,71 MB
Release : 1842
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :
Author : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Publisher :
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 13,71 MB
Release : 1842
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :
Author : James G. Basker
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 779 pages
File Size : 31,52 MB
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0300091729
"This volume is the first anthology of poetic writings on slavery from America, Britain, and around the Atlantic during the Enlightenment - the crucial period that saw the height of the slave trade but also the origins of the anti-slavery movement. Bringing together more than four hundred poems and excerpts from longer works that were written by more than two hundred and fifty poets, both famous and unknown, the book charts the emergence of slavery as part of the collective consciousness of the English-speaking world. The book includes: poems by forty women, ranging from abolitionists Hannah More and Mary Robinson to Frances Seymour, the Countess of Herford; works by more than twenty African or African American poets, including familiar names (Phillis Wheatley), intriguing figures (Afro-Dutch Latin scholar Johannes Capitein), and newly rediscovered black poets (an anonymous veteran of the Revolutionary War); and poetry by such canonical writers as Dryden, Defoe, Pope, Johnson, Blake, Boswell, Burns, Wordsworth, and Coleridge." "The poems speak of the themes of slavery: capture, torture, endurance, rebellion, thwarted romances, and spiritual longing. They also raise intriguing questions about the contradications between cultural attitudes and public policy of the time. Writers such as these, suggests editor James Basker, were not complicit in the imperial project or indifferent about slavery but actually laid the groundwork for the political changes that would follow."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Author : Cynthia Grady
Publisher : Eerdmans Young Readers
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 13,34 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0802853862
Mirroring the structure of a quilt, this volume of poems are built in three layers, representing biblical/spiritual reference, musical reference, and references to sewing/quilting itself. These are the poems of American slavery."--
Author : Phillis Wheatley
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 50,76 MB
Release : 2012-03-15
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0486115291
At the age of 19, Phillis Wheatley was the first black American poet to publish a book. Her elegies and odes offer fascinating glimpses of the beginnings of African-American literary traditions. Includes a selection from the Common Core State Standards Initiative.
Author : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Publisher :
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 15,56 MB
Release : 1842
Category : Literary Criticism
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Author : Phillis Wheatley
Publisher :
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 11,87 MB
Release : 1887
Category :
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Author : John Greenleaf Whittier
Publisher :
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 42,4 MB
Release : 1892
Category : Slavery
ISBN :
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 18,17 MB
Release : 1853
Category : Poems
ISBN :
Author : Marcus Wood
Publisher :
Page : 772 pages
File Size : 28,73 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780198187097
This is the first book to collect the most important works of poetry generated by English and North American slavery. Mixing poetry by the major Anglo-American Romantic poets (Blake, Coleridge, Wordsworth, Shelley, Keats, Whittier, Longfellow, Lowell, Whitman, Melville, Dickinson) with curious, and sometimes brilliant verse by a range of now forgotten literary figures, the anthology is designed to aid students and teachers address the Anglo-American cultural inheritance of slavery.
Author : Hannah More
Publisher :
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 15,98 MB
Release : 1788
Category : Slavery
ISBN :
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