The Black Bard of North Carolina: George Moses Horton and His Poetry by George Moses Horton & Joan R. Sherman

Author:George Moses Horton & Joan R. Sherman [Horton, George Moses & Sherman, Joan R.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: African American Studies, Social Science, Slavery, Biography & Autobiography, Poetry, Ethnic Studies, American, Literary Criticism, PBCAE
ISBN: 9780807823415
Google: EJwfAQAAIAAJ
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 1997-04-27T23:00:00+00:00

A pair of verses on poetry-writing suggests one change in Horton's art when he at last gained his freedom. In "On the Poetic Muse" (HL) the poet is a Romantic: he recollects in tranquility; then his muse flies through "mental skies" to "wonders" far above nature, to "scenes remote . . . as never yet exprest." In "The Art of the Poet" (NG), however, a neoclassical caution slips in, as the poet concedes that "nature first inspires the man," but he must then "mark well every rule," refine and polish his verse for "its glory bright to show." For the most part, Hor-

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