Awakening Verse : the poetics of early American evangelicalism / Wendy Raphael Roberts.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Roberts, Wendy Raphael, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religion in literature.

Evangelicalism in literature.

Religious poetry, American.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (321 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2020.

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.

Contents:

Introduction: Revival Poetry

Chapter One: "The Sound in Faith": The Calvinist Couplet and the

Poetics of Espousal

Two: "A Lady in New England": Forms of the Poet-Minister

Three: Evangelical Harmony and the Discord of Taste

Four: The Ethiop's Verse: The Limits of Poetic Capacity and 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.

Notes:

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ISBN:

0-19-751030-2

0-19-751028-0