The Poetry of Slavery: An Anglo-American Anthology, 1764-1865Marcus Wood Oxford University Press, 2003 - 704 من الصفحات This is the first book to collect the most important works of poetry generated by English and North American slavery. Mixing poetry by the major Anglo-American Romantic poets (Blake, Coleridge, Wordsworth, Shelley, Keats, Whittier, Longfellow, Lowell, Whitman, Melville, Dickinson) with curious, and sometimes brilliant verse by a range of now forgotten literary figures, the anthology is designed to aid students and teachers address the Anglo-American cultural inheritance of slavery. |
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List of Plates X | x |
Key Notes on Cultural | xxxv |
Chronology | lii |
Contents of Part I | 3 |
Contents of Part II | 395 |
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abolition verse abolitionists African Anacaona anthology anti-slavery Atlantic slave trade Atlantic slavery beauty beneath bless blood breast breath Britain British Brown Caribbean chains child Christian colonies curse dark death deep despair dread earth English enslavement fate fear feel fire Frederick Douglass freedom friends Fugitive Slave Fugitive Slave Law grief groans hand hath heart heaven human John Joseph Cinque labour land Leaves of Grass liberty literary look Lord middle passage native Negro night North o'er pain plantation poem poetic poetry poets political poor race rage round sable San Domingue satire ship shore sing slave power slave trade smile song soul South spirit stars suffering sweet tears thee thine Thomas Clarkson thou thro toil Toussaint Toussaint L'Ouverture tyrant Uncle Tom's Cabin voice waves weep wild William William Wells Brown wretch wrong