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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
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9780252072819
  • Release date
  • 2005