Sweet bells jangled : Laura Redden Searing : a deaf poet restored / Judy Yaeger Jones and Jane E. Vallier, editors.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Glyndon, Howard, 1840-1923.

Contributor:

Jones, Judy Yaeger.

Vallier, Jane E.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry.

Glyndon, Howard, 1840-1923.

Glyndon, Howard.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (224 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Gallaudet University Press, c2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Laura Redden Searing (1839-1923) defied critics of the time by establishing herself as a successful poet, a poet who was deaf. She began writing verse at the Missouri School for the Deaf in 1858, and, under the pseudonym Howard Glyndon, soon found herself catapulted into national prominence by her patriotic Civil War poems. Abraham Lincoln himself bought her books, the most critically acclaimed being Idylls of Battle and Poems of the Rebellion, published in 1864. Her poem "Belle Missouri" became the song of the Missouri Volunteers, and she was sent by the St. Louis Republican newspaper to Washington as a war correspondent. Despite her success, detractors decried her poetry simply because she was deaf, asking how she could know anything of rhyme, rhythm, or musical composition. She quieted them with the simple elegance of her words and the sophistication of her allegorical themes. Readers can enjoy her work again in this volume, which features more than 70 of her finest poems. They also will learn her feelings about the constraints imposed on 19th-century women in her epic narrative of misunderstanding and lost love "Sweet Bells Jangled: " Out of sight of the heated land Over the breezy sea; Into the reach of the solemn mist Quietly drifted we. Her restoration will be an event welcomed by poetry aficionados everywhere.

Contents:

""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""A Brief Biography of Laura Redden Searing Judy Yaeger Jones""; ""Laura Redden Searing: A Restored Voice in American Poetry""; ""Idyls of Battle""; ""The Red, White, and Blue""; ""In Time of War""; ""Left on the Battle-Field""; ""To the Earnest Thinkers""; ""De Profundis""; ""The Story of Sumter""; ""Watch-Night""; ""The Legend of Our Victories""; ""The Latest War News""; ""Baker""; ""The Snow in October""; ""An Appeal""; ""The Graves of Gettysburg""; ""The Snow at Fredericksburg""; ""The President�s Proclamation""

""A Greeting for a New Year""""The Volunteer�s Return""; ""My Absent Soldier""; ""Butler�s Black Brigade""; ""The Quiet Man""; ""My Story""; ""The Last Poem""; ""Dedicatory Poems""; ""A Farewell""; ""Wilhelmine""; ""Dear Mother""; ""Thirty Years""; ""To John Greenleaf Whittier""; ""Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet""; ""The Unveiling of the Fountain""; ""Little Footprints""; ""Guessing""; ""Birthrights""; ""Sweet Bells Jangled""; ""Prelibatory""; ""Sweet Bells Jangled""; ""Lover�s Leaves""; ""To My Rightful Readers""; ""My Past""; ""An After Song""; ""The Home of the Gentians""

""A Rhyme of the Maple Tree""""Troth-Plight""; ""One Kiss Before We Part""; ""Entre Nous""; ""Two Songs of One Singer""; ""The Door Between""; ""Afraid""; ""Et Tu?""; ""You and I!""; ""Only Her Hand""; ""Amy at the Window""; ""Ruse de Guerre""; ""A Woman�s Complaint""; ""Violets in Autumn""; ""Which Is Best?""; ""Breton Peasants""; ""A Love-Song of Sorrento""; ""A Sicilian Midnight Madrigal""; ""Mazzini""; ""At the Grave of Keats""; ""Broken Off""; ""Disarmed""; ""An Empty Nest""; ""With White Hands""; ""Hail and Farewell""; ""But Once""; ""At Dawn""; ""A Woman�s Questioning""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 15-20).

ISBN:

9781563682513

1563682516

9781563682681

1563682680

OCLC:

57352343