Selected Poems of Frederick Goddard Tuckerman

Frederick Goddard Tuckerman

ISBN 10: 0674050487 / ISBN 13: 9780674050488

Published by Harvard University Press Apr 2010, 2010

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Neuware - Unlike Whitman, Dickinson, or Wordsworth, Frederick Goddard Tuckerman (1821-1873) never wanted to start a revolution in poetry. This edition of Tuckerman's poetry includes several important poems omitted in 'The Complete Poems of Frederick Goddard Tuckerman'.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Selected Poems of Frederick Goddard Tuckerman
• Publisher: Harvard University Press Apr 2010
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0674050487
• ISBN 13: 9780674050488
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 223W x 148H x 26D millimeters 223 millimeters width by 148 millimeters height by 26 millimeters depth
• Weight: 454 grams

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Synopsis

Unlike Whitman, Dickinson, or Wordsworth, Frederick Goddard Tuckerman (1821–1873) never wanted to start a revolution in poetry. Nor did he―like Longfellow or his friend Tennyson―capture or ever try to represent the spirit of his age. Yet he remains one of America’s most passionate, moving, and technically accomplished poets of the nineteenth century: a New Englander through and through, a poet of the outdoors, wandering fields and wooded hillsides by himself, driven to poetry and the solitude of nature by the loss of his beloved wife. This is the persona we encounter again and again in Tuckerman’s sonnets and stanzaic lyric poetry.

Correcting numerous errors in previous editions, this is the first reliable reading edition of Tuckerman’s poetry. Ben Mazer has painstakingly re-edited the poems in this selection from manuscripts at the Houghton Library. Included in this generous selection are several important poems omitted in The Complete Poems of Frederick Goddard Tuckerman. In her introduction to the volume, Stephanie Burt celebrates an extraordinary poet of mourning and nature―an anti-Transcendental―who in many ways seems closer to writers of our own century than to, say, Emerson or even Thoreau. Readers who enjoy the verse of Richard Wilbur, Anthony Hecht, or Mary Oliver will find much to admire in Tuckerman’s poetry.

About the Authors

Ben Mazer is the author of several collections of poetry, most recently January 2008 and Poems.

Stephanie Burt is Professor of English at Harvard University.