Three American Poets: Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, and Herman Melville * Three American Poets: Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, and Herman Melville * Winds of Will: Emily Dickinson and the Sovereignty of Democratic Thought

2011 ◽  
Vol 83 (3) ◽  
pp. 668-670
Author(s):  
F. Barrett
Keyword(s):  
Herman Melville ◽  
Walt Whitman ◽  
Emily Dickinson ◽  
American Poets

The Poetics of American Civil War Sacrifice

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Randall Fuller
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Herman Melville ◽  
Walt Whitman ◽  
Body Politic ◽  
Emily Dickinson ◽  
American Civil War ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Sacrifice

The nature and meaning of sacrifice were fiercely contested in the aftermath of the American Civil War. Historians have documented a long struggle by veterans to ensure the continuing remembrance of their sacrifice. At the same time, American politicians tended to demur from acknowledging these sacrifices, as doing so would reopen the rift that had prompted war in the first place. This chapter probes the work of three Civil War poets—Emily Dickinson, Herman Melville, and Walt Whitman—to uncover the meaning of sacrifice during and after the war. Dickinson’s verses about psychic pain and dislocation are increasingly understood as simultaneous expositions of the personal and political: Melville’s knotty, multi-perspectival poems about the war, Battle-Pieces, question the ideological freight of sacrifice, and Whitman sought to honour the sacrifice of soldiers through a poetics he hoped would heal the body politic. Ultimately only Whitman’s consolatory poetry would find a postwar audience.

scholarly journals Reading and Not-Printing: Obstruction at the Crater Press

2014 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-53
Author(s):  
Richard Parker
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Walt Whitman ◽  
Mark Twain ◽  
Emily Dickinson ◽  
Colonial Period ◽  
Benjamin Franklin ◽  
History Of ◽  
American Poets

I will begin this paper with a brief and partial history of American printing, detecting a shared predilection for a noticeably maverick relation to the printed page in the works (printed and otherwise) of Samuel Keimer and Benjamin Franklin during the colonial period, and the works of Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson and Mark Twain in the nineteenth-century. I term the interrupted, dialectical printing that connects all of these writer/printers ‘not-printing’, and offer some explanation of his term and a description of some of its manifestations. I will then move on to consider how the idea of ‘not-printing’ might be helpful for the consideration of some contemporary British and American poets and printers before concluding with a description of some of the ways that the productive constraints of such a practice have influenced my own work as editor and printer at the Crater Press. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.14195/2182-8830_2-1_2

Emily Dickinson and the Battle of Ball's Bluff

PMLA ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 124 (5) ◽  
pp. 1582-1599 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin Friedlander
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Herman Melville ◽  
Emily Dickinson ◽  
Literary Marketplace ◽  
Local Newspapers

Emily Dickinson's response to the Civil War—once discounted as nonexistent or negligible, now embraced as part of the canon of Civil War writing—gives evidence of a conscious testing of alternatives. Among these alternatives, the most surprising, perhaps, is her potentially public positioning of herself as a war poet in works that celebrate military heroism. One such celebration, “When I was small, a Woman died—,” written in the aftermath of Ball's Bluff—a disastrous Union loss—revises the scenarios presented in two other Ball's Bluff poems and transforms the horrific death of a local soldier into a glorious ascent into the heavens, an uncharacteristically joyous response to an event that others (including Herman Melville) experienced as entirely mournful. Since the two other poems appeared in her local newspapers and since the soldier was Amherst's first casualty, Dickinson's poem is likely a carefully crafted bid for publication. Read in this way, moreover, “When I was small” reminds us that war presents a poet with unique rhetorical problems but also with opportunities, and that these opportunities can be tempting even for a writer as resistant to the literary marketplace as Dickinson.

Humanism

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Castiglia
Keyword(s):  
Herman Melville ◽  
Nathaniel Hawthorne ◽  
Walt Whitman ◽  
Literary Canon ◽  
Creative Imagination ◽  
Critical Practice ◽  
The Fantastic ◽  
Social Visions ◽  
American Romanticism

This chapter examines the career of Newton Arvin’s creation of queer humanism, combining the progressive socialism of the 1930s and the experiential innovation of an ethics of enhancement. In his readings of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Walt Whitman, and Herman Melville, Arvin conjoined creative imagination, social idealism, and human solidarity, generating a vital critical alternative to a disenchanting “cant of pessimism.” In the works of American Romanticism, Arvin found examples of practiced movements from pain to wonder, generating both personal and social dissatisfaction (generating critique) and endurance (ensuring the perpetual life of ideals). Arvin endorsed the socialist humanism he found in literary depictions of erotic fraternalism. Within those queer social visions, the conventions of prescribed life give way to the fantastic, extraordinary, and unprecedented. In such moments—the moments that Arvin recognized as central to the romance—new assemblages are worked out in the service of human possibility. Throughout his scholarship, Arvin combined imagination, sexuality, and humanism, placing the hybrid—the dispositional ethics of hope—at the center of the American literary canon and of a critical practice still available today.

scholarly journals Estrutura e significado em "Uma rosa para Emily", de William Faulkner

2004 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-53
Author(s):  
Carlos Daghlian
Keyword(s):  
Charles Dickens ◽  
William Faulkner ◽  
Herman Melville ◽  
Henry James ◽  
William Blake ◽  
Emily Dickinson ◽  
Robert Browning ◽  
Sherwood Anderson ◽  
John Crowe Ransom

Trata-se de uma análise do consagrado conto "Uma Rosa para Emily", de William Faulkner, voltada para alguns dos principais aspectos de sua estrutura. Após considerarmos o enredo, discutimos a construção das personagens, com destaque para a protagonista, fazendo um levantamento e comentários sobre possíveis fontes de inspiração, destacando, entre outras, aspectos da biografia da poeta Emily Dickinson, a ficção e a poesia de E. A. Poe, romances de Charles Dickens e Henry James, o conto de Sherwood Anderson e a poesia de William Blake, Emily Dickinson, Robert Browning e John Crowe Ransom, acrescentando paralelos com o conto "Bartleby, o escrivão", de Herman Melville. Analisamos, então, o foco narrativo, os símbolos e o significado, ressaltando aqui o desenvolvimento temático da narrativa.

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