Long before the official establishment of the Commonwealth,
intrepid pioneers ventured west of the Allegheny Mountains into an
expansive, alluring wilderness that they began to call Kentucky.
After blazing trails, clearing plots, and surviving innumerable
challenges, a few adventurers found time to pen celebratory
tributes to their new homeland. In the two centuries that followed,
many of the world's finest writers, both native Kentuckians and
visitors, have paid homage to the Bluegrass State with the written
word.
In The Kentucky Anthology, acclaimed author and literary
historian Wade Hall has assembled an unprecedented and
comprehensive compilation of writings pertaining to Kentucky and
its land, people, and culture. Hall's introductions to each author
frame both popular and lesser-known selections in a historical
context. He examines the major cultural and political developments
in the history of the Commonwealth, finding both parallels and
marked distinctions between Kentucky and the rest of the United
States.
While honoring the heritage of Kentucky in all its glory, Hall
does not blithely turn away from the state's most troubling
episodes and institutions such as racism, slavery, and war. Hall
also builds the argument, bolstered by the strength and
significance of the collected writings, that Kentucky's best
writers compare favorably with the finest in the world. Many of the
authors presented here remain universally renowned and beloved,
while others have faded into the tides of time, waiting for
rediscovery. Together, they guide the reader on a literary tour of
Kentucky, from the mines to the rivers and from the deepest hollows
to the highest peaks.
The Kentucky Anthology traces the interests and aspirations, the
achievements and failures and the comedies and tragedies that have
filled the lives of generations of Kentuckians. These diaries,
letters, speeches, essays, poems, and stories bring history
brilliantly to life. Jesse Stuart once wrote, "If these United
States can be called a body, Kentucky can be called its heart." The
Kentucky Anthology captures the rhythm and spirit of that heart in
the words of its most remarkable chroniclers.
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