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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.
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History and criticism, American poetry, American Patriotic poetry, Literature and the war, History and criticism, War poetry, American, History, American poetry, history and criticism, 19th century, War poetry, history and criticism, Patriotic poetry, United states, history, civil war, 1861-1865, literature and the war, American War poetryEdition | Availability |
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To Fight Aloud Is Very Brave American Poetry And The Civil War
2012, University of Massachusetts Press
1558499636 9781558499638
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