Words for the Hour A New Anthology of American Civil War Poetry

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Edition: 2005

Authors: Faith Barrett, Cristianne Miller

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"Words for the Hour" presents a readable and illuminating account of the Civil War, told through the words of poets North and South. From bathos to profound philosophical meditation and sorrow, the range of these poems illuminates the complexity of their era while also revealing the continuing power of this turning point in American history to speak to readers in the present day. The volume is divided into three parts, each offering a different perspective on the poetry generated by the war. Part I samples the extraordinary range of poems written immediately preceding and during the war and published in popular periodicals, providing a kind of poetic newspaper account as one might have read… it then--from the early days of optimistically heralded victory on both sides, through the mounting casualties and brutal deaths of the long middle years, to the war's conclusions and President Lincoln's assassination. Viewing the struggle from many different vantage points gives the reader access to the ways that people from various backgrounds experienced the trajectory of the war. Civilians and soldiers, free blacks and proponents of slavery, women and men from Massachusetts and Virginia and from recently admitted states and barely developed territories, writers with their eyes on the national political stage and those focused on personal domestic issues: these are the multiple voices of America responding to the war. Part II includes substantial selections of poems by writers who published extensively in response to the conflict, providing more complex and comprehensive perceptions of the war. These poets include not just well-known figures such as Walt Whitman, Herman Melville, and JohnGreenleaf Whittier, but also African American poets George Moses Horton and Frances Ellen Watkins Harper and Southern poets Henry Timrod and Sarah Piatt. Part III offers poems by two poets who did not publish during their lifetimes, but had strong imaginative responses to the conflict, thus giving a sense of the long reach of the war as a defining national experience. One of these two poets (Emily Dickinson) is now renowned while the other, (Obadiah Ethelbert Baker) is first published in this volume. "Words for the Hour" is indeed "new" among anthologies of Civil War poetry not only in its wide range of poems by popular, anonymous, and now canonical poets but also in its informational apparatus. A historical timeline listing major battles and events of the war begins the volume, and historical photographs or lithographs introduce each section of poems. The book also includes a substantial introduction, a glossary of important names and terminology relevant to understanding the poems, and biographical sketches for all the poets whose work is included.

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List price: $33.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
Publication date: 12/13/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 432
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English

List of Illustrations	p. xiii
Preface	p. xv
A Civil War Time Line	p. xxiii
Abbreviations: Source Collections of Civil War Poetry for Part I	p. xxix
Introduction: "Words for the Hour": Reading the American Civil War through Poetry by Faith Barrett	p. 1
Poems Published in Newspapers and Periodicals
Antebellum Poetry	p. 25
My Country	p. 27
The Mother and Her Captive Boy	p. 28
The Present Crisis	p. 29
I Sigh for the Land of the Cypress and Pine	p. 30
Southern Ode	p. 33
Song of the South	p. 35
Song of the "Aliened American"	p. 37
The Vessel of Love, the Vessel of State	p. 38
Lines	p. 38
I Wish I Was in Dixie's Land	p. 40
The Two Voices	p. 41
1861	p. 45
To the Men of the North and West	p. 47
The Nineteenth of April	p. 48
My Maryland	p. 49
Over the River	p. 51
The Old Rifleman	p. 52
Brother Jonathan's Lament for Sister Caroline	p. 54
The Harvest-Field of 1861	p. 55
The Southern Cross	p. 56
Our Faith in '61	p. 58
Manassas	p. 60
Not Yet	p. 61
Cotton-Doodle	p. 62
Price's Appeal to Missouri	p. 64
The Picket-Guard	p. 65
A Thought	p. 66
Soldiers' Aid Societies	p. 67
Let My People Go: A Song of the "Contrabands"	p. 69
1862	p. 73
Battle Hymn of the Republic	p. 75
Anomalies	p. 76
A Battle Hymn	p. 77
The Sword-Bearer	p. 78
The Cumberland	p. 80
The Song of the South	p. 82
The Stars and Bars	p. 83
Stonewall Jackson's Way	p. 85
Weaving	p. 86
To Abraham Lincoln	p. 89
Wanted-A Man	p. 89
Clouds in the West	p. 91
Three Hundred Thousand More	p. 92
Emancipation	p. 93
Half Way	p. 94
"While God He Leaves Me Reason, God He Will Leave Me Jim"	p. 96
A Southern Scene	p. 97
Melt the Bells	p. 99
Roll Call	p. 100
1863	p. 103
Boston Hymn	p. 105
The Reveille	p. 108
Conservative Chorus	p. 109
Only a Soldier's Grave	p. 109
Spring at the Capital	p. 110
The Black Regiment	p. 112
Wouldst Thou Have Me Love Thee	p. 114
The Wood of Gettysburg	p. 115
Chickamauga, "The Stream of Death!"	p. 117
On the Heights of Mission Ridge	p. 120
Negro Song of Mission Ridge	p. 121
My Army Cross Over	p. 122
Ride In, Kind Saviour	p. 123
Ready	p. 123
The Jacket of Gray	p. 124
Death the Peacemaker	p. 125
The Copperhead	p. 127
A Prayer for Peace	p. 128
In Libby Prison-New-Year's Eve 1863-4	p. 130
1864	p. 133
From The Day and the War	p. 135
Sambo's Right To Be Kilt	p. 138
Confederate Song of Freedom	p. 139
At Fort Pillow	p. 140
In the Wilderness	p. 142
Sonnet	p. 144
The Patriot Ishmael Day	p. 144
The Pride of Battery B	p. 146
Sheridan's Ride	p. 149
Brother, Tell Me of the Battle	p. 151
The Empty Sleeve	p. 152
Reading the List	p. 154
Only One Killed	p. 155
Fredericksburg	p. 156
The Confederacy	p. 157
1865	p. 159
My Autumn Walk	p. 161
I'm Dying, Comrade	p. 163
The Voices of the Guns	p. 164
Driving Home the Cows	p. 167
"Stack Arms"	p. 168
Doffing the Gray	p. 169
Ashes of Glory	p. 170
The Death of Lincoln	p. 171
The Death-Blow	p. 172
The Martyr	p. 173
A Second Review of the Grand Army	p. 173
The Dying Words of Jackson	p. 175
Ethiopia's Dead	p. 176
The Aftermath of the War	p. 179
"Is There, Then, No Hope for the Nations?"	p. 181
Killed at the Ford	p. 182
The Sword of Robert Lee	p. 183
Let the Banner Proudly Wave	p. 185
Christmas, South, 1866	p. 187
"Ay De Mi, Alhama!"	p. 188
To Our Hills	p. 189
The Blue and the Gray	p. 191
Little Giffen	p. 193
Gettysburg Ode	p. 194
Lincoln	p. 195
Collections and Volumes of Civil War Poetry
Slavery	p. 202
Lines	p. 203
The Poet's Feeble Petition	p. 205
General Grant-The Hero of the War	p. 205
The Southern Refugee	p. 207
Lincoln Is Dead	p. 208
Like Brothers We Meet	p. 208
The Dying Soldier's Message	p. 209
The Spectator of the Battle of Belmont	p. 210
The Terrors of War	p. 211
Jefferson in a Tight Place	p. 212
The Soldier on His Way Home	p. 213
Weep	p. 214
The Hunters of Men	p. 217
A Word for the Hour	p. 218
Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott	p. 219
At Port Royal	p. 222
The Battle Autumn of 1862	p. 225
What the Birds Said	p. 226
Barbara Frietchie	p. 228
Walt Whitman	p. 230
Eighteen Sixty-One	p. 231
Beat! Beat! Drums!	p. 232
Virginia-The West	p. 233
Cavalry Crossing a Ford	p. 233
Bivouac on a Mountain Side	p. 233
An Army Corps on the March	p. 234
By the Bivouac's Fitful Flame	p. 234
Come Up from the Fields Father	p. 234
Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night	p. 236
A March in the Ranks Hard-Prest, and the Road Unknown	p. 237
A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray and Dim	p. 238
Not the Pilot	p. 238
Year That Trembled and Reel'd Beneath Me	p. 239
The Wound-Dresser	p. 239
Dirge for Two Veterans	p. 241
Over the Carnage Rose Prophetic a Voice	p. 242
The Artilleryman's Vision	p. 243
Ethiopia Saluting the Colors	p. 244
Not Youth Pertains to Me	p. 244
Look Down Fair Moon	p. 245
Reconciliation	p. 245
How Solemn as One by One	p. 245
As I Lay with My Head in Your Lap Camerado	p. 246
To a Certain Civilian	p. 246
Adieu to a Soldier	p. 247
Turn O Libertad	p. 247
To the Leaven'd Soil They Trod	p. 248
Pensive on Her Dead Gazing	p. 248
When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd	p. 249
The Portent	p. 258
Apathy and Enthusiasm	p. 259
The March into Virginia	p. 260
Ball's Bluff	p. 261
Dupont's Round Fight	p. 262
Donelson	p. 263
A Utilitarian View of the Monitor's Fight	p. 275
Shiloh	p. 276
Malvern Hill	p. 277
The House-top	p. 278
Sheridan at Cedar Creek	p. 279
In the Prison Pen	p. 280
The College Colonel	p. 281
The Martyr	p. 282
Rebel Color-bearers at Shiloh	p. 283
"Formerly a Slave"	p. 284
Magnanimity Baffled	p. 285
On the Slain Collegians	p. 285
On the Slain at Chickamauga	p. 287
An uninscribed Monument	p. 288
The Slave Mother	p. 290
Bible Defence of Slavery	p. 291
Eliza Harris	p. 292
The Slave Auction	p. 294
Bury Me in a Free Land	p. 295
To the Cleveland Union-Savers	p. 296
Lines to Miles O'Reiley	p. 298
Words for the Hour	p. 299
An Appeal to My Countrywomen	p. 300
The Deliverance	p. 302
Learning to Read	p. 309
Ethnogenesis	p. 312
The Cotton Boll	p. 315
I Know Not Why	p. 320
A Cry to Arms	p. 320
Charleston	p. 322
The Two Armies	p. 323
Carmen Triumphale	p. 324
The Unknown Dead	p. 326
We May Not Falter	p. 327
Ode	p. 328
1866	p. 329
Hearing the Battle.-July 21, 1861	p. 332
Army of Occupation	p. 333
Giving Back the Flower	p. 334
Shoulder-Rank	p. 335
Another War	p. 336
Mock Diamonds	p. 337
Over in Kentucky	p. 339
The Black Princess	p. 340
The Old Slave-Music	p. 342
Counsel-In the South	p. 343
A Child's Party	p. 344
Unpublished or Posthumously Published Poems
To fight aloud, is very brave -	p. 352
Unto like Story - Trouble has enticed me -	p. 353
I like a look of Agony	p. 353
After great pain, a formal feeling comes -	p. 354
The name - of it - is "Autumn" -	p. 354
He fought like those Who've nought to lose -	p. 354
When I was small, a Woman died -	p. 355
It feels a shame to be Alive -	p. 356
One Anguish - in a Crowd -	p. 356
They dropped like Flakes -	p. 357
If any sink, assure that this, now standing -	p. 357
The Battle fought between the Soul	p. 357
No Rack can torture me -	p. 358
My Portion is Defeat - today -	p. 358
My Life had stood - a Loaded Gun -	p. 359
Color - Caste - Denomination -	p. 360
Dying! To be afraid of thee	p. 360
My Triumph lasted till the Drums	p. 360
I never hear that one is dead	p. 361
After the Battle: The Dirge	p. 363
Nov. 30th To an absent Wife	p. 365
Do You	p. 365
My Army Birth	p. 365
The Charge at Monterey	p. 366
The Charge at Farmington	p. 367
August 3rd, 1886	p. 368
The Unknown Grave	p. 369
Civil War Poetry Glossary	p. 371
Biographies of Poets	p. 375
Index of Authors and Titles	p. 397
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