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Fragments of an Uncompleted World: Joaquin Miller Restored

Fragments of an Uncompleted World: Joaquin Miller Restored

Miller, Joaquin
Stillwell, M. J.

Paperback

Literary Figures

ISBN13: 9798314390306
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Mar 22 2025
Pages: 274
Weight: 0.81
Height: 0.58 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Throughout the late nineteenth century, Joaquin Miller (1837-1913) stood shoulder to shoulder with the greatest names in American literature. Viewed critically as a poet not of the first rank, Miller made up for his unvarnished poetry by way of a storied background as a frontiersman, goldminer, and Indian fighter. He was more often than not the protagonist of his own narrative verse, lusciously set in Byronic style amidst the wilds of the Pacific Northwest. Not long after the turn of the twentieth century, Miller's work soon began vanishing from America's literary curriculum. For a half-century after his death, school children were familiarized with his most famous poem, Columbus. However, well into the twenty-first century, the name Joaquin Miller is sadly all but forgotten throughout most of the United States. It is the aim of this volume to reintroduce, through his own narration, the earliest chapters of the life of who would one day be known as The Poet of the Sierras.

Reproduced in this volume for the first time since their initial printing are Joaquin Miller's first book, Specimens (1868), as well as many of his contributions to the Shasta Courier in 1859.

Edited with an Introduction by M. J. Stillwell

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