Billy Sunday and Other Poems

Billy Sunday and Other Poems

Author: Carl Sandburg

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 152

ISBN-13:

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Previously unpublished, uncollected, and unexpurgated poems by the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet portray a variety of duplicitous characters, illustrate the folly of war, and ruminate on the dream of love.


Billy Sunday and Other Poems

Billy Sunday and Other Poems

Author: Carl Sandburg

Publisher: Mariner Books

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 117

ISBN-13: 9780156621441

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Unexpurgated and uncollected poems, many of which remained unpublished because their language was too raw, their attitude and politics too daring. Edited and with an Introduction by George and Willene Hendrick; photographs.


The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg

The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg

Author: Carl Sandburg

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 1970

Total Pages: 840

ISBN-13: 9780151009961

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Presents the Pulitzer Prize-winning collection of the complete poems of twentieth-century American poet Carl Sandburg.


Selected Poems

Selected Poems

Author: Carl Sandburg

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 9780156003964

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"What Sandburg knew and said was what America knew from the beginning and said from the beginning and has not yet, no matter what is believed of her, forgotten how to say," wrote Archibald MacLeish about Carl Sandburg - that most American of poets - and his connection to the American psyche.


American Poets and Poetry [2 volumes]

American Poets and Poetry [2 volumes]

Author: Jeffrey Gray

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2015-03-10

Total Pages: 786

ISBN-13: 1610698320

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The ethnically diverse scope, broad chronological coverage, and mix of biographical, critical, historical, political, and cultural entries make this the most useful and exciting poetry reference of its kind for students today. American poetry springs up out of all walks of life; its poems are "maternal as well as paternal...stuff'd with the stuff that is coarse and stuff'd with the stuff that is fine," as Walt Whitman wrote, adding "Of every hue and caste am I, of every rank and religion." Written for high school and undergraduate students, this two-volume encyclopedia covers U.S. poetry from the Colonial era to the present, offering full treatments of hundreds of key poets of the American canon. What sets this reference apart is that it also discusses events, movements, schools, and poetic approaches, placing poets in their social, historical, political, cultural, and critical contexts and showing how their works mirror the eras in which they were written. Readers will learn about surrealism, ekphrastic poetry, pastoral elegy, the Black Mountain poets, and "language" poetry. There are long and rich entries on modernism and postmodernism as well as entries related to the formal and technical dimensions of American poetry. Particular attention is paid to women poets and poets from various ethnic groups. Poets such as Amiri Baraka, Nathaniel Mackey, Natasha Trethewey, and Tracy Smith are featured. The encyclopedia also contains entries on a wide selection of Latino and Native American poets and substantial coverage of the avant-garde and experimental movements and provides sidebars that illuminate key points.


Hero of the Heartland

Hero of the Heartland

Author: Robert F. Martin

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 2002-09-17

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 9780253109521

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"Robert F. Martin demonstrates nicely that, beneath all of Billy Sunday's flamboyance, the orphan-turned-baseball player-turned-evangelist embodied the tensions of his age. Martin's prodigious research has yielded a wealth of anecdotal material that adds flavor and spice to his keen analysis." -- Randall Balmer, author of Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory: A Journey into the Evangelical Subculture in America William Ashley "Billy" Sunday was the most popular and influential evangelist of his time. Between 1896 and 1935, the colorful Iowa-born evangelist toured first his native Midwest and then the nation, preaching in tent and tabernacle, espousing a simplistic but, for many, deeply satisfying interpretation of Christianity. Embodying the traditional values and attitudes of the heartland and at home in an increasingly diverse, urban, industrial America, Sunday won the hearts -- and the pocketbooks -- of millions of Americans. Hero of the Heartland is an interpretive biography that focuses on the ways in which the man and his career resonated with the hopes and fears of his contemporaries as they coped with the economic, social, and cultural changes around the start of the 20th century. Robert F. Martin shows how Sunday and his revivalism helped his followers bridge the gap between the traditional past and the progressive future, and made more comfortable the transition from the old order to the new.


How Did Poetry Survive?

How Did Poetry Survive?

Author: John Timberman Newcomb

Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Published: 2012-04-15

Total Pages: 355

ISBN-13: 0252093909

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This book traces the emergence of modern American poetry at the turn of the nineteenth century. With a particular focus on four "little magazines"--Poetry, The Masses, Others, and The Seven Arts--John Timberman Newcomb shows how each advanced ambitious agendas combining urban subjects, stylistic experimentation, and progressive social ideals. While subsequent literary history has favored the poets whose work made them distinct--individuals singled out usually on the basis of a novel technique--Newcomb provides a denser, richer view of the history that hundreds of poets made.