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Jones Very - The Complete Poems (Hardcover, New)
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Jones Very - The Complete Poems (Hardcover, New)
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This complete scholarly edition of the poems of Jones Very
(1813-80) provides the requisite materials for a major reappraisal
of his work and standing among the significant figures of American
Transcendentalism. Collecting 862 poems, the volume makes available
for the first time all of Very's known poems, including much
previously unpublished or uncollected material. Very, a New England
Transcendentalist and a protege of Ralph Waldo Emerson, is one of
the underrated American poets of the nineteenth century. Though he
attracted a select audience in his day, serious study of Very's
work in this century has been hampered by the lack of a complete,
convenient, and reliable edition of his poetry. Perhaps even more
discouraging to readers of older collections of Very's poems has
been the puzzling variance in the style and quality of the verse.
This edition, in which the poems are dated and chronologically
arranged, reveals the three stages of Very's poetic development,
out of which the distinctive genius of the second period clearly
emerges. Written under the influence of a powerful
psychological/spiritual experience, the ecstatic utterances of this
period are by turns breathless in their intensity and tranquil in
their serene contentment. This complete edition presents a
critical, unmodernized, clear-text version of each poem, reflecting
as nearly as possible the author's final intention. A textual
introduction outlines editorial procedures and problems, and a
general introduction places Very among his contemporaries,
discusses the mystical experience that transformed his life and
poetry, reviews the major related criticism, and assesses his
poetic achievements. Historical notes and a full textual apparatus
complete the edition.
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