Poems of Progress Victorian Spiritualist Verse on Immortality, Reform, and the Cosmic Destiny of Humanity
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Einband
Taschenbuch
Verlag
Sharp InkSeitenzahl
240
Maße (L/B/H)
1,3/15,2/22,9 cm
Gewicht
334 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-80-283-4076-6
Poems of Progress gathers Lizzie Doten's visionary verse around the nineteenth-century faith in moral, spiritual, and social advancement. Its poems combine hymn-like cadences, public-lecture rhetoric, and the elevated diction of Romantic and Transcendentalist poetry, yet they are shaped distinctively by Spiritualist culture. Meditating on death, immortality, reform, and the unfolding destiny of humanity, the collection belongs to a postbellum literary world in which poetry, consolation, and metaphysical inquiry frequently met on the public platform. Doten was one of the most celebrated trance speakers and poets of American Spiritualism, a movement that claimed communication with the dead and attracted many reform-minded readers, especially women seeking religious and intellectual authority outside orthodox institutions. Her reputation rested on performances in which poems were presented as inspired, sometimes attributed to departed literary spirits. Such circumstances help explain the book's confidence in unseen realities and its insistence that progress is both personal and cosmic. This volume is recommended to readers interested in American religious history, women's authorship, Victorian popular poetry, and the literary forms of reform. It offers not merely curiosities of belief, but a revealing archive of how poetry could serve as prophecy, consolation, and cultural argument.
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