FRINK Linked Data Fragments server

Matches in SemOpenAlex for { <https://semopenalex.org/work/W2896123721> ?p ?o ?g. }

• W2896123721 endingPage "1004" @default.
• W2896123721 startingPage "999" @default.
• W2896123721 abstract "Reviewed by: Poetry Wars: Verse and Politics in the American Revolution and Early Republic by Colin Wells Scott M. Reznick (bio) Poetry Wars: Verse and Politics in the American Revolution and Early Republic colin wells Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018 342 pp. With his comprehensive study of political poetry from the American Revolution through the War of 1812, Colin Wells foregrounds a body of writing not often given extended treatment by literary scholars, but one which, as he superbly demonstrates, played an influential role in shaping the cultural and political landscape of the nation's turbulent, but formative, early years. Like Eric Slauter's groundbreaking The State as a Work of Art: The Cultural Origins of the Constitution (U of Chicago P, 2009), which drew on the wealth of early American texts now available in online databases to deepen, and in many ways transform, our understanding of the relationship between political life and political ideas in the early Republic, Poetry Wars unearths a trove of poems published in partisan newspapers and other print outlets to reveal the intricate ideological and rhetorical dynamics at work in the political debates that shaped the new nation and the active role that poetry played in them. He therefore makes a persuasive [End Page 999] case that poetry, despite W. H. Auden's later assertion to the contrary, does, in fact, make things happen. To understand the nature and depth of poetry's influence in the early Republic, Wells argues that we must first revise our conception of political poetry itself. Rather than seeing it as merely a subset of early American poetry that happens to be characterized by its political content, he contends that it must be treated as a genre or cultural form in its own right, with its own origin, history, and implicit aesthetics (3)—a perspective, Wells contends, that has been difficult to achieve due to the enduring veneration of lyric poetry that began with the New Critics. That interpretive dynamic has left little room for appreciating a body of poems whose meaning depended on the manifold contexts that surrounded their subject matter, origin, and dissemination (4). By combining masterful close reading with an informed literary-historical approach that allows him to situate individual poems within a nexus of regional, national, and transatlantic contexts, Wells helpfully illuminates how the meaning of one poem arises chiefly from its capacity to evoke and transform other linguistic forms, through allusion or parody or some other strategy of 'speaking back' to one or more targeted texts circulating in public (4–5). Whether it was colonial poets satirizing royal proclamations at the onset of the American Revolution or members of rival emerging political parties attacking the policies or patriotism of their opponents in the first decades of the Republic, Wells demonstrates that these discursive battles routinely featured poets vying for ideological victory (7) as they attempted to assert linguistic authority and to undermine that of their political (and literary) antagonists in an ongoing series of battles for the national imagination. The chapters in Wells's study are organized chronologically but also thematically as he traces how poetry and political life evolved in tandem, allowing the reader to follow that line of development without getting lost amid the vast array of poems and poetics forms he examines. In chapters 1 and 2, he depicts the early literary skirmishes that would eventually give way to all-out poetic warfare as American colonists challenged the official proclamations of British authority figures by publishing poetic parodies in a practice known as versification (19). These satirical poems eschewed traditional poetic technique (24) in order to lampoon the official-sounding language of such royal pronouncements, thus undercutting the authority—both political and linguistic—on which such proclamations [End Page 1000] inherently rested by portraying them as 'mere' language. In doing so, these versifiers were also constructing a critical audience representing the public at large (27)—a dynamic that informed other populist mode[s] (39) of political poetry such as the carrier's address, in which a fictional newsboy speaks to the readers of his newspaper. As Wells shows, this form took on increasingly political dimensions when, in response to the Stamp..." @default.
• W2896123721 created "2018-10-26" @default.
• W2896123721 creator A5004830925 @default.
• W2896123721 date "2018-01-01" @default.
• W2896123721 modified "2023-10-17" @default.
• W2896123721 title "Poetry Wars: Verse and Politics in the American Revolution and Early Republic by Colin Wells" @default.
• W2896123721 doi "https://doi.org/10.1353/eal.2018.0093" @default.
• W2896123721 hasPublicationYear "2018" @default.
• W2896123721 type Work @default.
• W2896123721 sameAs 2896123721 @default.
• W2896123721 citedByCount "0" @default.
• W2896123721 crossrefType "journal-article" @default.
• W2896123721 hasAuthorship W2896123721A5004830925 @default.
• W2896123721 hasConcept C124952713 @default.
• W2896123721 hasConcept C138885662 @default.
• W2896123721 hasConcept C142362112 @default.
• W2896123721 hasConcept C152212766 @default.
• W2896123721 hasConcept C158071213 @default.
• W2896123721 hasConcept C164913051 @default.
• W2896123721 hasConcept C17744445 @default.
• W2896123721 hasConcept C192562157 @default.
• W2896123721 hasConcept C199539241 @default.
• W2896123721 hasConcept C27206212 @default.
• W2896123721 hasConcept C94625758 @default.
• W2896123721 hasConcept C94817283 @default.
• W2896123721 hasConcept C95457728 @default.
• W2896123721 hasConceptScore W2896123721C124952713 @default.
• W2896123721 hasConceptScore W2896123721C138885662 @default.
• W2896123721 hasConceptScore W2896123721C142362112 @default.
• W2896123721 hasConceptScore W2896123721C152212766 @default.
• W2896123721 hasConceptScore W2896123721C158071213 @default.
• W2896123721 hasConceptScore W2896123721C164913051 @default.
• W2896123721 hasConceptScore W2896123721C17744445 @default.
• W2896123721 hasConceptScore W2896123721C192562157 @default.
• W2896123721 hasConceptScore W2896123721C199539241 @default.
• W2896123721 hasConceptScore W2896123721C27206212 @default.
• W2896123721 hasConceptScore W2896123721C94625758 @default.
• W2896123721 hasConceptScore W2896123721C94817283 @default.
• W2896123721 hasConceptScore W2896123721C95457728 @default.
• W2896123721 hasIssue "3" @default.
• W2896123721 hasLocation W28961237211 @default.
• W2896123721 hasOpenAccess W2896123721 @default.
• W2896123721 hasPrimaryLocation W28961237211 @default.
• W2896123721 hasRelatedWork W170072754 @default.
• W2896123721 hasRelatedWork W2318188376 @default.
• W2896123721 hasRelatedWork W2334373840 @default.
• W2896123721 hasRelatedWork W2363232603 @default.
• W2896123721 hasRelatedWork W2387863935 @default.
• W2896123721 hasRelatedWork W2464490214 @default.
• W2896123721 hasRelatedWork W2916135993 @default.
• W2896123721 hasRelatedWork W2990774655 @default.
• W2896123721 hasRelatedWork W3199503227 @default.
• W2896123721 hasRelatedWork W976455818 @default.
• W2896123721 hasVolume "53" @default.
• W2896123721 isParatext "false" @default.
• W2896123721 isRetracted "false" @default.
• W2896123721 magId "2896123721" @default.
• W2896123721 workType "article" @default.