Welcome to Boston in the early years of the republic. Prepare to journey by stagecoach with a young man moving to the bustling city ; stop by a tavern for food, drink, and conversation; eavesdrop on clerks and customers in a dry-goods shop; get stuck in what might have been Boston's first traffic jam; and enjoy arch comments about spouses, doctors, lawyers, politicians, and poets. As Paul Lewis and his students at Boston College reveal, regional vernacular poetry-largely overlooked or deemed of little or artistic value-provides access to the culture and daily life of the city. Selected from over 4,500 poems published during the early national period, the works presented here, mostly anymous, will carry you back to Old Boston to hear the voices of its long-forgotten citizen poets. A rich collection of lost poetry that will beguile locals and visitors alike.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
University Press of New England
ISBN-10
1611688884
ISBN-13
9781611688887
eBay Product ID (ePID)
221874234
Product Key Features
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Poetry Texts & Poetry Anthologies
Genre
Poetry Texts & Poetry Anthologies
Dimensions
Height
229mm
Width
152mm
Additional Product Features
Place of Publication
Hanover
Edited by
Paul Lewis
Date of Publication
05/04/2016
Content Note
2 Illus.
Country of Publication
United States
Author Biography
Paul Lewis is a professor of English at Boston College specializing in the literary history of Boston and American humor.