TY - BOOK AU - Barrett,Faith ED - Project Muse. TI - To fight aloud is very brave: American poetry and the Civil War SN - 9781613762141 AV - PS310.C585 B37 2012 U1 - 811/.409358737 23 PY - 2012/// CY - Amherst PB - University of Massachusetts Press KW - Patriotic poetry, American KW - History and criticism KW - War poetry, American KW - History and criticism KW - American poetry KW - 19th century KW - United States KW - History KW - Civil War, 1861-1985 KW - Literature and the war KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction: the rhetoric of voice in Civil War poetry -- Shaping communities through popular song -- "We are here at our country's call": nationalist commitments and personal stances in Union and Confederate soldiers' poems -- The lyric I and the poetics of protest: Julia Ward Howe and Frances Harper -- Addresses to a divided nation: Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, and the place of the lyric I -- Romantic visions and Southern stances: Henry Timrod, Sarah Piatt, and George Moses Horton -- "They answered him aloud": popular voice and nationalist allegiances in Herman Melville's battle-pieces -- Epilogue: Civil War poetry in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9781613762141/ ER -