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Guy Vernon: A Novelette in Verse Paperback – 16 May 2012

by John Townsend Trowbridge (Author), William Logan (Editor)

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Many writers are deservedly forgotten, yet not every act of erasure is just. John Townsend Trowbridge (1827â 1916) was a prolific American writer whose novels, plays, and poems, though critically acclaimed in his day, have with good reason not been remembered. He wrote one poem, however, that has been unfairly consigned to oblivion. Guy Vernon, a long seriocomic work about race, racism, and sexual intrigue in antebellum America, was first published in 1878 in A Masque of Poets, an anthology of anonymous poems featuring works by Louisa May Alcott, James Russell Lowell, Henry David Thoreau, and Emily Dickinson (whose contribution was her only poem to be published in book form during her life). Guy Vernon is a novelette in verse portraying an unhappy marriage between North and South on the eve of the Civil War. Guy Vernon, a dashing plantation owner, takes as his wife a penniless young charmer named Florinda whom he meets at the Saratoga balls. Soon estranged, they are joined in their travels around New Orleans, Havana, and the abolitionist North by Vernon\u2019s freed black manservant, Saturn, a \u201cmulatto\u201d dandy who exerts a mysterious power over his former master, and by Florinda\u2019s previous suitor, Rob Lorne, a journalist and would-be poet. Composed in rollicking rhyme royal stanzas, this verseâ narrative is at once comic and gothic, recalling in its cynicism and rhythms Byron\u2019s masterpiece, Don Juan. Edited and extensively annotated by the renowned poet and critic William Logan, this edition incorporates revisions Trowbridge marked in his own copy of the anthology. Back in print for the first time since 1878, Guy Vernon reemerges as a lost classic of American literature, one that both reflects and criticizes the social and literary conventions of its time.

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Paperback: 216 pages
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press (16 May 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0816673861
ISBN-13: 978-0816673865
Product Dimensions: 12.7 x 3 x 20.3 cm
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Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 8,031,530 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #20743 in Books > Fiction > Poetry & Drama > Poetry > World > American
- #372196 in Books > Poetry, Drama & Criticism

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"One of the wittiest and most winning narrative poems since its great precursors, Pope's "Rape of the Lock" and Byron's "Don Juan." Guy Vernon really is what its champion William Logan claims: a forgotten -- if minor -- masterpiece." --The Washington Post

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John Townsend Trowbridge (1827-1916) was a novelist, poet, and pro-abolition polemicist. As a young man, he served briefly as editor of Benjamin Perley Poore's newspaper the Sentinel. Largely overlooked now, he wrote hit plays and was a prolific author of children's stories. He was a friend of Longfellow, Holmes, and Whitman. William Logan is the author of eight volumes of poetry and five books of essays and reviews, including The Undiscovered Country, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism. He is the Alumni/ae Professor of English at the University of Florida.

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