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The Pulpit's Muse: Conversive Poetics In The American Renaissance, Michael William Keller
The Pulpit's Muse: Conversive Poetics In The American Renaissance, Michael William Keller
Dissertations (1934 -)
This dissertation focuses on the interaction between poetic form and popular religious practice in the nineteenth century United States. Specifically, I aim to see how American poets appropriated religious tropes—and especially religious conversion—in their poetry with specific designs on their audience. My introduction analyzes the phenomenon of religious conversion up through the nineteenth century with help from psychologists and historians of religion, including William James and Sydney Ahlstrom. In the introduction, I also explore how revivalist conversion helped inform the poetics of Walt Whitman and Ralph Waldo Emerson. Chapter one focuses on Emerson’s poetry, particularly as it enacts Emerson’s poetic …
Henry Taylor Papers, 1960-2000., Beth S. Harris
Henry Taylor Papers, 1960-2000., Beth S. Harris
Finding Aids: Guides to the Collections
Papers of poet Henry Taylor. The collection includes literary manuscripts, student publications, and professional correspondence. Some files contain clippings, advertisement material, and photocopies of manuscripts