Epic has a deep, core reflexivity regarding reception-the Their ponderous and (paradoxically for aspiring epic poets) serially private laboring to represent the new republic as, fundamentally and fatally, the renovated telos of patriarchal western history would seem to have been driven by the felt absence of a living, vitalizing audience of new imperial citizens. It has long been regarded warily or condescendingly as perhaps the baggiest of American literature's own great "baggy monsters"-those imperial long poems proliferated in the Revolution's wake among a small group of elite writers. No early American work, perhaps no major work in all of American literature, has been a harder sell to prospective readers than Joel Barlow's Columbiad (1807). kristina bross Purdue University Joel Barlow's Columbiad: A Bicentennial Reading steVen blakeMore Knoxville: U of Tennessee P, 2007 vii, 384 pp.
Joel Barlow's Columbiad: A Bicentennial Reading (review) Joel Barlow's Columbiad: A Bicentennial Reading (review)Ĥ38 } earlY aMeriCan literatUre: VolUMe 4 4, nUMber 2 would it mean to consider an aesthetic of spiritual complementation in, for instance, mid-century anti-Quaker tracts? Moreover, now that we can turn to David Shields's impressive edition of seventeenth- and eighteenthcentury American poetry, we need to see more studies focused on early American poetic forms-alternative, resistant, or unconventional though they may be.
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