
Selected Poems of Frederick Goddard Tuckerman
Frederick Goddard Tuckerman(Author)
Ben Mazer(Editor)
The Belknap Press
Published on 15. April 2010
Book
Hardback
240 pages
978-0-674-05048-8 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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.
Reviews / Votes
No poet of nature has known the natural world with the intimacy, subtlety, and sensitivity to detail of Tuckerman. This edition freshly illuminates the complete poetry of this major, but little known, American talent. -- John Burt, Brandeis University This is a welcome new edition of one of the masters of the meditative lyric. -- Denis Donoghue, New York UniversityMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge, Mass.
United States
Publishing group
Harvard University Press
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 210 mm
Width: 140 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-674-05048-8 (9780674050488)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
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.
Content
* Introduction by Stephen Burt * Note on the Text by Ben Mazer * Chronology of Tuckerman's Life Selected Poems of Frederick Goddard Tuckerman * November * April * May Flowers * Hymn for the Dedication of a Cemetery * Infatuation * Sonnet * Picomegan * Sonnets * Twilight * To the River * A Soul that out of Nature's Deep * A Sample of Coffee Beans * Anybody's Critic * Rhotruda * Coralie *[I took from its glass a flower] * As sometimes in a Grove * Mark Atherton * Sidney * Refrigerium * Sonnets. PART I * Sonnets. PART II * Sonnets. PART III