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The fascinating biography of one of America's most colorful diplomats

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"Poet, republican, diplomat, and entrepreneur, Joel Barlow filled many roles and registered impressive accomplishments. In the first biography of this fascinating figure in decades, Richard Buel Jr. recounts the life of a man more intimately connected to the Age of Revolution than perhaps any other American. Barlow was a citizen of the revolutionary world, and his adventures throughout the United States and Europe during both the American and French Revolutions are numerous and notorious. From writing his epic poem, The Vision of Columbus, to plotting a republican revolution in Britain to negotiating the release of American sailors taken captive by Barbary pirates, Joel Barlow personified the true spirit of the tumultuous times in which he lived. No one witnessed more climactic events or interacted with more significant people than Joel Barlow. It was his unique vision, his unfailing belief in republicanism, and his entrepreneurial spirit that drove Barlow to pursue the revolutionary ideal in a way more emblematic of the age than the lives of many of its prominent heroes. Buel is a knowledgeable guide, and in telling Barlow's story he explores the cultural landscape of the early American republic and engages the broader themes of the Age of Revolution. Few books explore in such a comprehensive fashion the political, economic, ideological, diplomatic, and technological dimensions of this defining moment in world history."--Front flap.

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American poetry --- History and criticism --- Barlow, Joel --- Criticism and interpretation --- Bradstreet, Anne Dudley --- Bryant, William Cullen --- Dwight, Timothy --- Emerson, Ralph Waldo --- Franklin, Benjamin --- Freneau, Philip Morin --- Holmes, Oliver Wendell --- Lanier, Sidney --- Lowell, James Russell --- Melville, Herman --- Poe, Edgar Allan --- Taylor, Edward --- Timrod, Henry --- Irving, Washington --- Wheatley, Phillis --- Whitman, Walt --- Whittier, John Greenleaf --- Wigglesworth, Michael

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Alexander the Great, according to Plutarch, carried on his campaigns a copy of the Iliad, kept alongside a dagger; on a more pronounced ideological level, ancient Romans looked to the Aeneid as an argument for imperialism. In this major reinterpretation of epic poetry beginning with Virgil, David Quint explores the political context and meanings of key works in Western literature. He divides the history of the genre into two political traditions: the Virgilian epics of conquest and empire that take the victors' side (the Aeneid itself, Camoes's Lusíadas, Tasso's Gerusalemme liberata) and the countervailing epic of the defeated and of republican liberty (Lucan's Pharsalia, Ercilla's Araucana, and d'Aubigné's Les tragiques). These traditions produce opposing ideas of historical narrative: a linear, teleological narrative that belongs to the imperial conquerors, and an episodic and open-ended narrative identified with "romance," the story told of and by the defeated. Quint situates Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained within these rival traditions. He extends his political analysis to the scholarly revival of medieval epic in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and to Sergei Eisenstein's epic film, Alexander Nevsky. Attending both to the topical contexts of individual poems and to the larger historical development of the epic genre, Epic and Empire provides new models for exploring the relationship between ideology and literary form.

Epic poetry --- Literary form. --- Literature and history. --- History and criticism. --- Genres [Letterkundige ] --- Genres [Literaire ] --- Genres littéraires --- Geschiedenis en literatuur --- Geschiedenis en poëzie --- Histoire et littérature --- Histoire et poésie --- Letterkundige genres --- Littérature et histoire --- Poésie et histoire --- Poëzie en geschiedenis --- Poetry --- History --- History and criticism --- Literature and history --- Literary form --- Politiek. --- Epiek. --- Epic poetry. --- 17.86 literary genres, theory of genre. --- Heroic poetry --- History and literature --- History and poetry --- Poetry and history --- Form, Literary --- Forms, Literary --- Forms of literature --- Genre (Literature) --- Genre, Literary --- Genres, Literary --- Genres of literature --- Literary forms --- Literary genetics --- Literary genres --- Literary types (Genres) --- Literature --- Acoma pueblo. --- Ahl, Frederick. --- Ancients and Modems. --- Ascoli Piceno. --- Barchiesi, Alessandro. --- Barlow, Joel. --- Bentley, Richard. --- Borges, Jorge Luis. --- Brecht, Bertolt. --- Brooks, Peter. --- Caesar, Julius. --- Caesarion. --- Carausius. --- Cicero. --- Cleanthes. --- Dias, Bartolomeu. --- Donation of Constantine. --- Duggan, Joseph. --- Eikon Basilike. --- Empson, William. --- Este family. --- Fawkes, Guy. --- Fowler, Alastair. --- Fronde. --- Getto, Giovanni. --- Guarini, Battista. --- Góis, Damião de. --- Hartman, Geoffrey. --- Herodotus. --- Horace. --- Jamestown settlement. --- Josephus. --- Kalevala. --- Lagos, Ramona. --- Leo X, Pope. --- Loyola, Ignatius. --- Martello, Francesco. --- Michel, Francisque. --- Moctezuma. --- Naevius. --- Napoleon Bonaparte. --- New Historicism. --- Onate, Juan de. --- Parthia and Parthians. --- Peisistratus. --- Polybius. --- Quintilian. --- anabaptism. --- census. --- civil war. --- history and narrative. --- imitation.