The Poetry of Slavery: An Anglo-American Anthology, 1764-1865Marcus Wood Oxford University Press, 2003 - 704 páginas This 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. |
Índice
List of Plates X | x |
Key Notes on Cultural | xxxv |
Chronology | lii |
Contents of Part I | 3 |
Contents of Part II | 395 |
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