Palace-Burner: The Selected Poetry
Over the past decade, Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt (1836-1919) has emerged as the most highly regarded and most frequently anthologized nineteenth-century American woman poet after Emily Dickinson. Published heavily in all the period's most prestigious journals, Piatt was widely celebrated in her own day as a gifted stylist in the genteel tradition. Based entirely on archival research, Palace-Burner reveals Piatt's other side: an ironic, experimental poet who pushed the limits of Victorian language, the sentimental female persona, and what women's poetry could say. Paula Bernat Bennett's astutely edited selection of Piatt's mature work — much of it never before collected — explains why her "deviant poetics" caused her peers such discomfort and why her poems provide such fertile ground for study today.
- Format
- paperback
- Pages
- 264
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press
- Language
- english
- ISBN
- 9780252072819
- Release date
- 2005
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