Poetry Wars
Author: Colin Wells
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 0812249658
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe pen was as mighty as the musket during the American Revolution, as poets waged literary war against politicians, journalists, and each other. Drawing on hundreds of poems, Poetry Wars reconstructs the important public role of poetry in the early republic and examines the reciprocal relationship between political conflict and verse.