The Poetry of Slavery

TRAMA

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.

SOMMARIO

List of Plates; Abolition Poetry: A Literary Introduction; English and North American Slavery: Key Notes; Chronology; I. English Poems; List of Contents; English Poems; II. American Poems; List of Contents; American Poems; Selected Bibliography

ALTRE INFORMAZIONI

• Condizione: Nuovo
• ISBN: 9780198187097
• Dimensioni: 233 x 39.3 x 155 mm Ø 1159 gr
• Formato: Brossura
• Illustration Notes: numerous halftones
• Pagine Arabe: 768