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Record Nr.

UNINA9910793717503321

Autore

Cleary Scott

Titolo

The field of imagination : Thomas Paine and eighteenth-century poetry / / Scott M. Cleary

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Charlottesville : , : University of Virginia Press, , 2019

Baltimore, Md. : , : Project MUSE, , 2019

©2019

ISBN

0-8139-4294-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (187 pages)

Disciplina

811/.2

Soggetti

Revolutionaries - United States

Poets, American

Epigraphs (Literature)

Political poetry, American - History and criticism

American poetry - 18th century - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Wit is naturally a volunteer: poetry and print culture in the Pennsylvania magazine -- Speak of it as it is: forms of liberty in Paine's early poetry -- The shifted vision: James Thomson and Common sense -- Pen and soul; glory and nothing: Charles Churchill and Crisis II -- The field of imagination: public and private spheres in Paine's manuscript poetry -- Tom the bodice-maker: Paine in English poetry of the 1790s -- The manly page: Philip Freneau's poetic affinities -- Repay thy labors: Joel Barlow's poetic predilections.

Sommario/riassunto

"The first book-length study of Thomas Paine as a poet, this book also examines his use of poetic epigraphs, his image in eighteenth-century political poetry, and his influence on later American poets"--