Citizen Poets is an invaluable work of scholarship on American periodical culture and popular poetry in the early Republic. . . .[It] enjoins us to appreciate the poetic vernaculars and public discourse in the cities where we live, to make room for a place-based, historically specific criticism that speaks to the cultural work of American literature on the ground.
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