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Author Cleary, Scott, author

Title The field of imagination : Thomas Paine and eighteenth-century poetry / Scott M. Cleary
Published Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2019

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Contents Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Introduction; One. Wit Is Naturally a Volunteer: Poetry and Print Culture in the Pennsylvania Magazine; Two. Speak of It as It Is: Forms of Liberty in Paine's Early Poetry; Three. The Shifted Vision: James Thomson and Common Sense; Four. Pen and Soul; Glory and Nothing: Charles Churchill and Crisis II; Five. The Field of Imagination: Public and Private Spheres in Paine's Manuscript Poetry; Six. Tom the Bodice-Maker: Paine in English Poetry of the 1790s; Seven. The Manly Page: Philip Freneau's Poetic Affinities
Eight. Repay Thy Labors: Joel Barlow's Poetic PredilectionsNotes; Bibliography; Index
Summary "The first book-length study of Thomas Paine as a poet, this book also examines his use of poetic epigraphs, his image in eighteenth-century political poetry, and his influence on later American poets"-- Provided by publisher
Subject Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809 -- Influence
Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809 -- Literary style
Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809 -- Criticism and interpretation
SUBJECT Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809 -- Influence
Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809 -- Literary style
Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809 -- Criticism and interpretation
Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809 fast
Subject Revolutionaries -- United States -- Biography
Poets, American -- Biography
Epigraphs (Literature)
Political poetry, American -- History and criticism
American poetry -- 18th century -- History and criticism
LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
American poetry
Epigraphs (Literature)
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Literary style
Poets, American
Political poetry, American
Revolutionaries
United States
Genre/Form Biographies
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780813942940
0813942942
9780813942933
0813942934