Awakening Verse is the first monograph to address evangelical poetry in the American colonies, shedding light on important dimensions of eighteenth-century religious and literary culture. Roberts deftly assembles a large, previously unknown archive of immensely popular poems, examines how American literary history has rendered this poetic tradition invisible, and demonstrates how a vibrant popular poetics exercised a substantial effect on the landscape of early American religion, literature, and culture.
Awakening Verse is the first monograph to address evangelical poetry in the American colonies, shedding light on important dimensions of eighteenth-century religious and literary culture. Roberts deftly assembles a large, previously unknown archive of immensely popular poems, examines how American literary history has rendered this poetic tradition invisible, and demonstrates how a vibrant popular poetics exercised a substantial effect on the landscape of early American religion, literature, and culture.
Wendy Raphael Roberts is Assistant Professor of English at The University at Albany, SUNY.
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Acknowledgements Introduction: Revival Poetry Chapter One: "The Sound in Faith": The Calvinist Couplet and the Poetics of Espousal Chapter Two: "A Lady in New England": Forms of the Poet-Minister Chapter Three: Evangelical Harmony and the Discord of Taste Chapter Four: The Ethiop's Verse: The Limits of Poetic Capacity and Espousal Piety Chapter Five: A Revivalist Ars Poetica for an Itinerant Coterie: Evangelical Wit, Punctiliar Revision, and Poetic Address Conclusion: Conversions of Poetic History Appendix A: Revival Poets and Poetry Appendix B: Selected Verse
Acknowledgements Introduction: Revival Poetry Chapter One: "The Sound in Faith": The Calvinist Couplet and the Poetics of Espousal Chapter Two: "A Lady in New England": Forms of the Poet-Minister Chapter Three: Evangelical Harmony and the Discord of Taste Chapter Four: The Ethiop's Verse: The Limits of Poetic Capacity and Espousal Piety Chapter Five: A Revivalist Ars Poetica for an Itinerant Coterie: Evangelical Wit, Punctiliar Revision, and Poetic Address Conclusion: Conversions of Poetic History Appendix A: Revival Poets and Poetry Appendix B: Selected Verse
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