The Patriot Poets American Odes, Progress Poems, and the State of the Union

"Sure to spark a new wave of critical discussion of American poetry and archival discoveries, Stephen Adams's The Patriot Poets is an ambitious, wide-ranging study of an important yet almost entirely neglected dimension in American literary history: the ode." Thomas Travisano, Hartwick College "In The Patriot Poets, Adams (Univ. of Western Ontario) presents a timely, sweeping study of American odes and progress poems, and how poets have engaged the republic in these often-overlooked genres." Choice