04073nam 2200613 450 991082175300332120230801232556.01-61376-214-3(CKB)3400000000127705(PromptCat)40021712690(MH)013531990-0(SSID)ssj0000822792(PQKBManifestationID)11464482(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000822792(PQKBWorkID)10760055(PQKB)10233848(MiAaPQ)EBC4533137(OCoLC)830023843(MdBmJHUP)muse19015(Au-PeEL)EBL4533137(CaPaEBR)ebr11214607(EXLCZ)99340000000012770520160611h20122012 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtccrTo fight aloud is very brave American poetry and the Civil War /Faith BarrettAmherst, [Massachusetts] ;Boston, [Massachusetts] :University of Massachusetts Press,2012.©20121 online resource (xiii, 336 p. )ill. ;Includes index.1-55849-962-8 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.Focusing on literary and popular poets, as well as work by women, African Americans, and soldiers, this book considers how writers used poetry to articulate their relationships to family, community, and nation during the Civil War. The author suggests that the nationalist "we" and the personal "I" are not opposed in this era; rather they are related positions on a continuous spectrum of potential stances. For example, while Julia Ward Howe became famous for her "Battle Hymn of the Republic," in an earlier poem titled "The Lyric I" she struggles to negotiate her relationship to domestic, aesthetic, and political stances. The author makes the case that Americans on both sides of the struggle believed that poetry had an important role to play in defining national identity. She considers how poets created a platform from which they could speak both to their own families and local communities and to the nations of the Confederacy, the Union, and the United States. She argues that the Civil War changed the way American poets addressed their audiences and that Civil War poetry changed the way Americans understood their relationship to the nation.American poetry19th centuryHistory and criticismWar poetry, AmericanHistory and criticismPatriotic poetry, AmericanHistory and criticismUnited StatesHistoryCivil War, 1861-1865Literature and the warAmerican poetryHistory and criticism.War poetry, AmericanHistory and criticism.Patriotic poetry, AmericanHistory and criticism.811/.409358737Barrett Faith1965-1688168MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910821753003321To fight aloud is very brave4062180UNINAThis Record contains information from the Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset, which is provided by the Harvard Library under its Bibliographic Dataset Use Terms and includes data made available by, among others the Library of Congress