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The Life and Poetry of Manoah Bodman. Bard of the Berkshires.
Bodman, Manoah. Ed(S): Turco, Lewis
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hardcover. Editor(s): Turco, Lewis. Num Pages: 114 pages. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 454.
The Life and Poetry of Manoah Bodman reconstructs the poetry of Manoah Bodman, an important early American poet whose poems have not appeared in over a century and a half. Bodman, considered "a man of great eccentricity," regularly delivered orations in New England towns during the Second Great Awakening of the late nineteenth century. He published two broadsides, two booklets, and one book, all filled with depictions of verbal communication with visions of various kinds possibly brought about by epileptic seizures. Despite his long-winded, turgid prose, Bodman's poems are curiously modern in their diction. He wrote in an ejaculatory manner ... Read more
The Life and Poetry of Manoah Bodman reconstructs the poetry of Manoah Bodman, an important early American poet whose poems have not appeared in over a century and a half. Bodman, considered "a man of great eccentricity," regularly delivered orations in New England towns during the Second Great Awakening of the late nineteenth century. He published two broadsides, two booklets, and one book, all filled with depictions of verbal communication with visions of various kinds possibly brought about by epileptic seizures. Despite his long-winded, turgid prose, Bodman's poems are curiously modern in their diction. He wrote in an ejaculatory manner ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
University Press of America United States
Number of pages
114
Condition
New
Number of Pages
114
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780761813248
SKU
V9780761813248
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About Bodman, Manoah. Ed(S): Turco, Lewis
Lewis Turco is a poet and Professor of English Emeritus at SUNY College at Oswego.
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