Congregational Hymns from the Poetry of John Greenleaf Whittier
Congregational Hymns from the Poetry of John Greenleaf Whittier

Author: Samuel J. Rogal

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2010-03-08

Total Pages: 175

ISBN-13: 0786457287

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Poet John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892) proved a significant contributor to American Protestant hymnody--since 1843, more than 2,100 hymnals published in the United States have included adaptations of his works--despite the fact that Whittier never considered himself a hymnist. This book compares and contrasts Whittier's original published texts with versions adapted as hymns, exhibiting the hymnodic elements of his poetry and displaying the textual changes to Whittier's lines by hymnal editors from a variety of denominations. The work offers in-depth comparative studies of many of his poems and their resultant hymns, a catalogue of hymns-from-poems, a chronology of Whittier's life and works, notes, bibliography and index.

Folklore and the Sea
Folklore and the Sea

Author: Horace Palmer Beck

Publisher: Applewood Books

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 590

ISBN-13:

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Horace Beck, a former professor of American Literature at Middlebury College, has been gathering the sea's folklore for 70 years in Europe, North America, and the West Indies. This collection of legends, songs, superstitions, and stories, both true and apocryphal includes spectral ships, mermaids and mermen, pirates, sea language, sea monsters, navigation and weather lore, names on sea and shore, and much more. Library Journal called Folklore and the Sea "a browser's delight as well as a researcher's gold mine."

Supernaturalism of New England
Supernaturalism of New England

Author: John Greenleaf Whittier

Publisher:

Published: 1847

Total Pages: 133

ISBN-13: 9780806371221

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This text is a collection of poems and tales concentrated on superstitions and supernatural tales transmitted by the white settlers of New England. While the accounts vary, most deal with the appearance of ghosts or specters as omens of death, fulfillments of the wishes of deceased persons, or clues to the identities of wrong-doers. Originally published in 1847.

American Regional Folklore
American Regional Folklore

Author: Terry Ann Mood-Leopold

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2004-09-24

Total Pages: 497

ISBN-13: 1576076210

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An easy-to-use guide to American regional folklore with advice on conducting research, regional essays, and a selective annotated bibliography. American Regional Folklore begins with a chapter on library research, including how to locate a library suitable for folklore research, how to understand a library's resources, and how to construct a research strategy. Mood also gives excellent advice on researching beyond the library: locating and using community resources like historical societies, museums, fairs and festivals, storytelling groups, local colleges, newspapers and magazines, and individuals with knowledge of the field. The rest of the book is divided into eight sections, each one highlighting a separate region (the Northeast, the South and Southern Highlands, the Midwest, the Southwest, the West, the Northwest, Alaska, and Hawaii). Each regional section contains a useful overview essay, written by an expert on the folklore of that particular region, followed by a selective, annotated bibliography of books and a directory of related resources.