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PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Walt Whitman, John Burroughs, and J.P. Irvine represent a handful of the thousands of government clerks who worked in the nation's capital after the Civil War. But Irvine, a small-town poet from the Illinois prairies, was the one selected to address President Ulysses S. Grant and a crowd of 10,000 people on Memorial Day 1873. Those words were lost, along with the legacy of the man. Until now. This groundbreaking book weaves extensive original research and surprising historical stories with the rediscovered poems of this forgotten literary figure from 19th-century America.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - An average government clerk presented a poem to President Ulysses S. Grant and a crowd of 10,000 people, then J.P. Irvine and his words faded into history. This book gathers his poetry in one place for the first time ever, meticulously transcribed from sources that spanned from blurry, small-town newspaper microfilms to the archives of the era's most prestigious magazines. The texts reveal Irvine's full literary range: haunting Civil War poetry that rendered the conflict in urgent terms, street ballads that captured life in post-Civil War DC with humorous wordplay, and prairie hymns that translated the changing Midwestern horizons into verse.…