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<p><p>One of America’s Founding Fathers, Thomas Paine is best remembered as the pamphleteer who inspired the American Revolution. Yet few also know him as an eighteenth-century poet of considerable repute. In <i>The Field of Imagination,</i> Scott Cleary offers the first book on Paine’s poetry, exploring how poetry written both by and about Paine is central to understanding his development as a political theorist.</p> <p>Despite his claim in <i> The Age of Reason</i> that he was abandoning poetry because it led too much into the "field of imagination," Paine never completely left poetry behind. He took advantage of his position as editor of the <i>Pennsylvania Magazine</i> to situate his poetry in relation to the magazine’s tacit support of American independence. He drew on two British poets, James Thomson and Charles Churchill, to provide revealing epigraphs for his major early works in support of that independence, and in turn he himself became an influence on early American poets such as Joel Barlow and Philip Freneau.</p> <p>Paine’s poetry has until now been largely relegated to the status of scholarly curiosity. But whether through his own poetry, his thoughts on the place and

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Author

Cleary, Scott;Paine, Thomas

Publisher

University of Virginia Press

Published

2019

Language

EN

ISBN

9780813942940

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, History, Biography