To fight aloud is very brave [electronic resource] : American poetry and the Civil War / Faith Barrett.
Material type: TextSeries: UPCC book collections on Project MUSEPublication details: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, 2012. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (328 p.)ISBN:- 9781613762141
- 1613762143
- 811/.409358737 23
- PS310.C585 B37 2012
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.
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