Sign-In
Cart
The Poems of John Dewey
Paperback
PhilosophyPoetry CriticismGeneral Poetry
Currently unavailable to order
Please enter your email and a message will be sent to you when this product becomes available on our website.
ISBN13: 9780809339594
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
Published: Nov 13 2024
Pages: 230
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.50 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A literary discovery of considerable magnitude, these 98 previously unpublished poems by John Dewey, written principally in the 1910-18 period, illuminate an emotive aspect in his intellectual life often not manifest in the prose works.
Rumors of the existence of the poems have circulated among students of Dewey's life and writings since 1957, when Mrs. Roberta Dewey gained possession of them from the Columbia University Columbiana collection. But except for the few persons who saw copies made by the French scholar Deladelle five years after Dewey's death, the poems have remained inaccessible until now.
None of the poems has hitherto been published. Mrs. Roberta Dewey and Dewey's children from his first marriage seem not to have known of Dewey's experiments in verse during his lifetime. And, as evidence presented here now shows, only two or three acquaintances knew of actual poems written by Dewey, one of them the Polish-American novelist Anzia Yezierska, who had a brief emotional involvement with Dewey in the 1917-18 period. The factual, rather than inferential, evidence of Dewey's relationship with Anzia Yezierska appears in the poems, which, taken as a whole, provide revealing insights into Dewey's feelings and illuminate not only aspects of his emotions but of his thought as well.
The fact that Dewey did not publish the poetry himself, together with the circumstances of its discovery and unusual history, has led to the exceptionally careful editorial treatment of the poems given here. Scholars will find all the evidence for the authorship of the manuscripts clearly presented and all the changes and alterations carefully recorded. This edition has received the Modern Language Association of America Center for Editions of American Authors Seal as an approved text.
Also from
Dewey, John
Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education (Easy to Read Layout)
Dewey, John
Hardcover
Chance, Love, and Logic
Cohen, Morris R. (Morris Raphael)
Dewey, John
Peirce, Charles S. (Charles Sanders)
Paperback
The School and Society & The Child and the Curriculum (Polis & Praxis Education Series)
Dewey, John
Paperback
Chance, Love, and Logic
Cohen, Morris R. (Morris Raphael)
Dewey, John
Peirce, Charles S. (Charles Sanders)
Hardcover
The Influence Of Darwin On Philosophy, And Other Essays In Contemporary Thought
Dewey, John
Paperback
The Influence of Darwin on Philosophy, and Other Essays in Contemporary Thought
Dewey, John
Paperback
My Pedagogic Creed: Also, the Demands of Sociology Upon Pedagogy by Prof. Albion W. Small
Albion Woodbury Small
John Dewey
Dewey, John
Paperback
Creative Intelligence: Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude
Dewey, John
Bode, Boyd Henry
Brown, Harold Chapman
Hardcover
The Influence of Darwin on Philosophy, and Other Essays in Contemporary Thought
Dewey, John
Hardcover
The School And Society: Being Three Lectures Supplemented By A Statement Of The University Elementary School
Dewey, John
Paperback
Leibniz's New Essays Concerning the Human Understanding: A Critical Exposition (Cram Edition)
Dewey, John
Paperback
Creative Intelligence: Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude
Brown, Harold Chapman
Dewey, John
Bode, Boyd Henry
Paperback
Man's Supreme Inheritance: Conscious Guidance and Control in Relation to Human Evolution in Civilization (Cram Edition)
Alexander, F. Matthias (Frederick Mat
Dewey, John
Paperback
Chance, Love, and Logic: Philosophical Essays (Cram Edition)
Cohen, Morris R. (Morris Raphael)
Peirce, Charles S. (Charles Sanders)
Dewey, John
Paperback
Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education (Cram Edition)
Dewey, John
Paperback
Creative Intelligence: Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude (Cram Edition)
Dewey, John
Bode, Boyd Henry
Brown, Harold Chapman
Paperback
The Influence of Darwin on Philosophy, and Other Essays in Contemporary Thought (Cram Edition)
Dewey, John
Paperback
Also in
General Poetry
Dante's Vita Nuova, New Edition: A Translation and an Essay
Pitavy, Francois
Alighieri, Dante
Paperback
Sounding the Seasons Enlarged Edition: One Hundred and Ten Sonnets for the Christian Year
Guite, Malcolm
Paperback
Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching: A Book about the Way and the Power of the Way
Le Guin, Ursula K.
Lao Tzu
Paperback
They Bloom Because of You: Poems on the Infinite Love, Growth, and Magic of Motherhood
Urlichs, Jessica
Paperback
Ariel: The Restored Edition: A Facsimile of Plath's Manuscript, Reinstating Her Original Selection and Arrangement
Plath, Sylvia
Paperback
This Is the Main Event: Discovering the Life You Long for in the Life You Have
Smith, Joshua Luke
Hardcover