Author: Emma Catherine Embury
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
The Poems of Emma C. Embury
Author: Emma Catherine Embury
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
Emma Embury: Poet of the Heart
Author: Charles Russell
Publisher: Xlibris Us
ISBN: 9781669800231
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Call her majestic. The most popular woman poet of America's 19th Century literary Renaissance. Her works were prodigious, inclusive, democratic. She published more than four-hundred poems, novels, and essays during her lifetime. She contributed poems to The Knickerbocker Magazine, The Lady's Companion, Columbian, Godey's Lady's Book, Graham's Magazine, and Religious Souvenir. Her story, Pictures of Early Life, was applauded as "highly interesting and instructive; and of a character which should place it in the hands of youth." In 1845 Edgar Allan Poe published her "Thoughts of a Silent Man" essays in his periodical Broadway Journal. Later. In "The Literati of New York City," a scholarly article he wrote for the August 1846 issue of Godey's Lady's Book, he classed Emma as one of the principal writers of the time. A precursor of feminism, she wrote, "If I were a man, as, thank God, I am not, for among my many blessings I rank first that of being a woman," and gave "An Address on Female Education" championing higher education for women that was reprinted in Woman and Higher Education, a collection essays by founders of the first women's colleges. Her "Essay on American Literature," was the first to propose that America should support a literary class in society and a national literature. Her skills extended beyond excellence as a writer. She played the piano and other musical instruments, sang in a lovely mezzo-soprano voice, and painted exquisite watercolors for her book Nature's Gems, the first book on American wildflowers.
Publisher: Xlibris Us
ISBN: 9781669800231
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Call her majestic. The most popular woman poet of America's 19th Century literary Renaissance. Her works were prodigious, inclusive, democratic. She published more than four-hundred poems, novels, and essays during her lifetime. She contributed poems to The Knickerbocker Magazine, The Lady's Companion, Columbian, Godey's Lady's Book, Graham's Magazine, and Religious Souvenir. Her story, Pictures of Early Life, was applauded as "highly interesting and instructive; and of a character which should place it in the hands of youth." In 1845 Edgar Allan Poe published her "Thoughts of a Silent Man" essays in his periodical Broadway Journal. Later. In "The Literati of New York City," a scholarly article he wrote for the August 1846 issue of Godey's Lady's Book, he classed Emma as one of the principal writers of the time. A precursor of feminism, she wrote, "If I were a man, as, thank God, I am not, for among my many blessings I rank first that of being a woman," and gave "An Address on Female Education" championing higher education for women that was reprinted in Woman and Higher Education, a collection essays by founders of the first women's colleges. Her "Essay on American Literature," was the first to propose that America should support a literary class in society and a national literature. Her skills extended beyond excellence as a writer. She played the piano and other musical instruments, sang in a lovely mezzo-soprano voice, and painted exquisite watercolors for her book Nature's Gems, the first book on American wildflowers.
The Poets and Poetry of America
Author: Rufus Wilmot Griswold
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 584
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 584
Book Description
The Female Poets of America
Author: Rufus Wilmot Griswold
Publisher: Ardent Media
ISBN:
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
Publisher: Ardent Media
ISBN:
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
American Women Poets of the Nineteenth Century
Author: Cheryl Walker
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 9780813517919
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
This publication marks the first time in a hundred years that a wide range of nineteenth-century American women's poetry has been accessible to the general public in a single volume. Included are the humorous parodies of Phoebe Cary and Mary Weston Fordham and the stirring abolitionist poems of Lydia Sigourney, Frances Harper, Maria Lowell, and Rose Terry Cooke. Included, too, are haunting reflections on madness, drug use, and suicide of women whose lives, as Cheryl Walker explains, were often as melodramatic as the poems they composed and published. In addition to works by more than two dozen poets, the anthology includes ample headnotes about each author's life and a brief critical evaluation of her work. Walker's introduction to the volume provides valuable contextual material to help readers understand the cultural background, economic necessities, literary conventions, and personal dynamics that governed women's poetic production in the nineteenth century.
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 9780813517919
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
This publication marks the first time in a hundred years that a wide range of nineteenth-century American women's poetry has been accessible to the general public in a single volume. Included are the humorous parodies of Phoebe Cary and Mary Weston Fordham and the stirring abolitionist poems of Lydia Sigourney, Frances Harper, Maria Lowell, and Rose Terry Cooke. Included, too, are haunting reflections on madness, drug use, and suicide of women whose lives, as Cheryl Walker explains, were often as melodramatic as the poems they composed and published. In addition to works by more than two dozen poets, the anthology includes ample headnotes about each author's life and a brief critical evaluation of her work. Walker's introduction to the volume provides valuable contextual material to help readers understand the cultural background, economic necessities, literary conventions, and personal dynamics that governed women's poetic production in the nineteenth century.
The Female Poets of America
Author: Rufus Wilmot Griswold
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
The Columbian Magazine
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
ECHOES OF LIFE OR BEAUTIFUL GEMS OF POETRY AND PROSE
Author: GRACE TOWNSEND
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 686
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 686
Book Description
The famale poets of America
Author: Rufus Wilmot Griswold
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
Cyclopaedia of American Literature
Author: Evert Augustus Duyckinck
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 816
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 816
Book Description