Poetry of Witness The Tradition in English, 1500 - 2001

Name: Poetry of Witness The Tradition in English, 1500 - 2001
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ISBN: 9780393340426

ISBN-10: 0393340422

ISBN-13: 9780393340426

Edition: 2014

Authors: Carolyn Forchï¿½, Duncan Wu, Carolyn Forchï¿½

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A companion volume to Against Forgetting, Poetry of Witness is the first anthology to reveal a tradition that runs through English-language poetry. The 300 poems collected here were composed at an extreme of human endurance-while their authors awaited execution, endured imprisonment, fought on the battlefield, or labored on the brink of breakdown or death. All bear witness to historical events and the irresistibility of their impact. Alongside Shakespeare, Milton, and Wordsworth, this volume includes such writers as Anne Askew, tortured and executed for her religious beliefs during the reign of Henry VIII; Phillis Wheatley, abducted by slave traders; Samuel Bamford, present at the Peterloo…

Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/27/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 672
Size: 6.20" wide x 9.30" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 2.046
Language: English