The Poetry of Slavery: An Anglo-American Anthology, 1764-1865This 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. |
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Contents
List of Plates | x |
Key Notes on Cultural | xxxv |
Chronology | lii |
Contents of Part I | 3 |
Contents of Part II | 395 |
| 694 | |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Poetry of Slavery: An Anglo-American Anthology, 1764-1865 |
| Editor | Marcus Wood |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press, 2003 |
| ISBN | 0198187092, 9780198187097 |
| Length | 704 pages |
| Subjects | › › History / Modern / 19th Century Literary Criticism / Ancient & Classical Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
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