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Sweet Bells Jangled

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Laura Redden Searing (1839-1923) defied critics of the time by establishing herself as a successful poet, a poet who was deaf. She began writing verse at the Missouri School for the Deaf in 1858, and, under the pseudonym Howard Glyndon, soon found herself catapulted into national prominence by her patriotic Civil War poems. Abraham Lincoln himself bought her books, the most critically acclaimed being  Idylls of Battle and Poems of the Rebellion , published in 1864. Her poem “Belle Missouri” became the song of the Missouri Volunteers, and she was sent by the  St. Louis Republican  newspaper to Washington as a war correspondent.       Despite her success, detractors decried her poetry simply because she was deaf, asking how she could know anything of rhyme, rhythm, or musical composition. She quieted them with the simple elegance of her words and the sophistication of her allegorical themes. Readers can enjoy her work again in this volume, which features more than 70 of her finest poems. They also will learn her feelings about the constraints imposed on 19th-century women in her epic narrative of misunderstanding and lost love “Sweet Bells ” Out of sight of the heated landOver the breezy sea;Into the reach of the solemn mistQuietly drifted we.Her restoration will be an event welcomed by poetry aficionados everywhere.

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Sweet Bells Jangled, J. Jones Yaeger, J.E. Vallier

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2003
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