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Bàalam Ajaw, Ismael Briceño Mukul
Bàalam Ajaw, Ismael Briceño Mukul
Maya America: Journal of Essays, Commentary, and Analysis
Bàalam Ajaw es un poema original de Ismael Briceño Mukul in his Yucatec Maya language. Se presentó en español y en inglés en otro lugar de esta revista bajo el título Príncipe Jaguar y Prince Jaguar.
The Legacy Of Gil Scott-Heron, Regennia N. Williams
The Legacy Of Gil Scott-Heron, Regennia N. Williams
The Journal of Traditions & Beliefs
No abstract provided.
Books: Suggestions For Further Reading, Regennia N. Williams
Books: Suggestions For Further Reading, Regennia N. Williams
The Journal of Traditions & Beliefs
No abstract provided.
An Apology For Confederate Poetry, Elizabeth J. Elliott '13
An Apology For Confederate Poetry, Elizabeth J. Elliott '13
The Gettysburg College Journal of the Civil War Era
This paper explores the reasons why poetry written in the Confederate states during the Civil War is rarely included in the American literary canon. Historians and literary critics have dismissed Confederate poetry as nothing more than jingoistic and sentimental "trash in rhyme." Nevertheless, poems buried in the mountains of Southern literary magazines and journals from the period tell a more nuanced story. Covering a wide and fascinating range of subjects, both good and bad Confederate poems aptly reflected how the Southern popular mind reacted to and dealt with the events of the war.
John Mitchell: Journeyman-Poet, Edward D. Ives
John Mitchell: Journeyman-Poet, Edward D. Ives
Maine History
In this article folklorist Edward D. Ives traces the life and work of journeyman-poet John Mitchell, who moved from job to job in northern Maine at the beginning of the twentieth century. Ives uses oral history and a few extant poems to give us a glimpse at the life of the common laborer on the raw northern Maine frontier. Mitchell was a wanderer, but he knew the world of the ordinary working man from the inside out, and his poems express the hopes, fears, humor and irony of daily life as he saw it. “Sandy” Ives is professor emeritus from …
Queen Catherine's Rose; By Elizabeth Akers Allen, Stephanie Philbrick
Queen Catherine's Rose; By Elizabeth Akers Allen, Stephanie Philbrick
Maine History
No abstract provided.