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Making available what is perhaps the longest-running diary in
existence, ""Selected Journals of Caroline Healey Dall, 1838-1855""
offers what arguably is the most complete account we have of a
nineteenth-century American woman's life. Dall (1822-1912), a
participant in the transcendentalist, abolitionist, women's rights,
and social science movements, filled her journals with intelligent
reflections and keen analysis of her world. This, the first of
three volumes, begins with her adolescence at Beacon Hill. The
journals will address a wide range of topics covering some
three-quarters of a century, including family and social rituals
and interactions; the routines of ""woman's work""; illnesses, both
physical and mental, and their treatment; examples of cross-class
and cross-race relations; and the larger world of business,
politics, literature, reform, war, religion, and science. In
detailing Dall's emotional, intellectual, and spiritual
development, the journals also convey a compelling personal story.
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previously unpublished or uncollected material.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.
Robert Lowell is one of the most widely recognised and influential
poets of the second half of this century. Yet his career is
problematical and raises many questions about direction and
quality, particularly in light of his repeated reorientation of
thematic concern and poetic technique. Many previous studies of the
poet have accounted for these radical differences in Lowell's work
by examining the poet's private life, but this collection of essays
attempts to reassess Lowell's poetry and to restimulate critical
thinking about it by focusing on his texts to raise new questions
and discussions about the work. The twelve essays in this volume,
by many of the most distinguished scholars in the field, offer a
chronological review of Robert Lowell's career as a poet. The book
includes pieces on major works such as Lord Weary's Castle, Life
Studies, For the Union Dead, 'Skunk Hour', Notebook, the sonnets of
1969-73 as well as four essays devoted to Lowell's last complete
and often neglected work, Day by Day. Employing a variety of
methodologies, the essays arrive at innovative and, often,
controversial interpretations of Lowell's poems.
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