The Religious Poems of Emma Catherine Embury (Paperback)

Language: English. Brand new Book. Call her majestic. The most popular woman poet of America's early 19th Century literary Renaissance. She was powerfully religious. More than forty of her devotional poems appeared in newspapers and magazines during her writing career. Edgar Allen Poe, who published many of her secular essays, observed that she was always original. In that respect it's important to realize she was writing for the general public, so her religious poems traverse the full range of spiritual topics - Confidence in God, Holy Chronicles, Heartache, Courage.