| Description |
1 online resource (321 pages) |
| Contents |
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 AddressConclusion: Conversions of Poetic History -- Appendix A: Revival Poets and Poetry -- Appendix B: Selected Verse |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Religious poetry, American -- History and criticism
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American poetry -- 18th century -- History and criticism
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American poetry -- 19th century -- History and criticism
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Evangelicalism in literature.
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Religion in literature.
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Evangelicalism -- United States -- History -- 18th century
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American poetry
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Evangelicalism
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Evangelicalism in literature
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Religion in literature
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Religious poetry, American
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0197510299 |
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9780197510308 |
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0197510302 |
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9780197510292 |
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