The Poetry of Slavery

Download or read book The Poetry of Slavery written by Marcus Wood and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 772 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.