In this Book
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman's In This Our World and Uncollected Poems
- Book
- 2012
- Published by: Syracuse University Press
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Prominent American author, lecturer, and social reformer Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860–1935) is best known for her 1898 treatise Women and Economics, which ascribed gender inequality to women’s economic dependence upon men, and for her 1892 short story "The Yellow Wall-Paper," which depicts a woman’s descent into madness. However, she began her career as a poet. Her first authored book, a collection of verse entitled In This Our World, was issued in four different editions between 1893 and 1898. While virtually all of Gilman’s later poems appeared in her monthly magazine, The Forerunner (1909–16), or in The Later Poetry of Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1996), Gilman’s early verse has been largely inaccessible to modern readers, and dozens of her poems have never been collected. This volume, coedited by Scharnhorst and Knight, includes all 149 poems in the 1898 edition of In This Our World as well as 112 vagrant poems that appeared in a variety of newspapers and magazines. This critical volume features a comprehensive introduction and extensive notes. Gilman devotees and a new generation of readers will find this edition an indispensable resource.
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- Acknowledgments
- p. xv
- A Note on the Text
- p. xvii
- Introduction
- pp. xix-xxvi
- Nature’s Answer
- pp. 4-5
- The Commonplace
- pp. 5-6
- Homes—A Sestina
- pp. 6-7
- The Rock and the Sea
- pp. 8-9
- The Lion Path
- pp. 9-10
- Reinforcements
- p. 10
- Fire with Fire
- p. 12
- The Shield
- pp. 12-13
- To the Preacher
- pp. 13-14
- Compromise
- pp. 14-15
- Part of the Battle
- p. 15
- Step Faster, Please
- pp. 15-16
- Out of Place
- pp. 16-17
- Little Cell
- p. 17
- The Child Speaks
- pp. 17-18
- To a Good Many
- pp. 18-19
- How Would You?
- pp. 19-21
- A Man Must Live
- p. 21
- In Duty Bound
- pp. 21-22
- Out of the Gate
- pp. 23-24
- The Modern Skeleton
- pp. 24-25
- The Lesson of Death—to S.T.D.
- pp. 25-26
- Thanksgiving
- p. 27
- Christmas Hymn
- pp. 27-28
- The Living God
- pp. 29-30
- Thanksgiving Hymn—for California
- pp. 31-32
- Christmas Carol—for Los Angeles
- pp. 32-33
- What Then?
- pp. 35-36
- Our Loneliness
- pp. 36-37
- Immortality
- pp. 37-38
- Among the Gods
- pp. 41-42
- A Nevada Desert
- pp. 44-45
- Tree Feelings
- p. 45
- Monotony—from California
- pp. 45-46
- Where Memory Sleeps—Rondeau
- pp. 47-48
- Powell Street
- pp. 48-50
- From Russian Hill
- pp. 50-51
- “An Unusual Rain”
- pp. 51-52
- City’s Beauty
- pp. 52-53
- Winds and Leaves—from England
- pp. 53-54
- On the Pawtuxet
- p. 54
- A Moonrise
- p. 54
- The Prophets
- p. 56
- Similar Cases
- pp. 56-58
- A Conservative
- pp. 58-59
- An Obstacle
- pp. 59-61
- The Sweet Uses of Adversity
- pp. 61-62
- Connoisseurs
- pp. 62-63
- The Pastellette
- pp. 63-64
- The Pig and the Pearl
- pp. 64-65
- Poor Human Nature
- p. 65
- Our San Francisco Climate
- pp. 65-66
- Another Creed
- pp. 66-67
- The Little Lion
- p. 67
- On New Year’s Day
- p. 68
- Unmentionable
- pp. 69-70
- An Invitation from California
- pp. 70-71
- Women of To-day
- pp. 76-77
- To the Young Wife
- pp. 77-78
- False Play
- p. 78
- Motherhood
- pp. 78-80
- Six Hours a Day
- pp. 80-81
- An Old Proverb
- pp. 81-82
- Reassurance
- p. 82
- Mother to Child
- pp. 82-84
- In Mother-Time
- pp. 85-86
- She Who is to Come
- p. 86
- Girls of To-day
- pp. 86-87
- “We, as Women”
- pp. 87-88
- If Mother Knew
- pp. 88-89
- The Anti-Suffragists
- pp. 89-90
- Women Do Not Want It
- p. 91
- Wedded Bliss
- p. 92
- The Holy Stove
- pp. 92-93
- The Mother’s Charge
- pp. 93-94
- A Brood Mare
- pp. 94-96
- Feminine Vanity
- pp. 96-97
- The Modest Maid
- pp. 97-98
- A Mother’s Soliloquy
- pp. 100-101
- They Wandered Forth
- p. 101
- The Wolf at the Door
- pp. 105-106
- The Lost Game
- pp. 106-107
- The Looker-On
- pp. 107-109
- The Old-Time Wail
- pp. 109-110
- Free Land is Not Enough
- pp. 110-111
- Who is to Blame?
- pp. 111-112
- If a Man May Not Eat Neither Can He Work
- pp. 112-113
- His Own Labor
- pp. 113-114
- As Flew the Cross
- p. 114
- Hardly a Pleasure
- pp. 115-117
- Nationalism
- p. 117
- The King is Dead! Long Live the King!
- pp. 117-118
- “How Many Poor!”
- pp. 118-119
- The Dead Level
- pp. 119-120
- The Amoeboid Cell
- pp. 120-122
- The Survival of the Fittest
- pp. 122-123
- Division of Property
- p. 123
- Christian Virtues
- pp. 123-125
- What’s That?
- pp. 125-126
- An Economist
- pp. 126-127
- Uncollected and Other Poems
- pp. 129-130
- Young Allan Black
- pp. 131-132
- Ode to a Fool
- pp. 133-134
- Ballade of the Young Editor
- pp. 134-135
- Why Nature Laughs
- pp. 135-136
- The Amiable Elephant
- p. 136
- Mr. Rockefeller’s Prayer
- pp. 137-138
- To Mothers
- pp. 138-140
- Ballade of ye Gentil Mayde
- pp. 140-141
- Vain Fears
- pp. 141-142
- The Duty Farthest
- p. 144
- A New Creation
- pp. 145-146
- Christmas Time
- pp. 146-147
- Ideas. (After Emerson)
- p. 147
- The Teacher
- pp. 147-148
- The San Francisco Hen
- pp. 148-149
- In Re “Andromaniacs”
- p. 149
- My Cyclamen
- pp. 149-150
- Work and Wages
- pp. 150-151
- Women to Men. Relatives and Otherwise
- pp. 152-153
- For the New Year
- p. 154
- Our System
- pp. 154-155
- To American Men
- pp. 155-156
- Our Wealth
- pp. 156-157
- Our Tomorrow
- pp. 157-158
- The Rats of Ruskin
- p. 158
- Eternal Me
- p. 159
- Self-Conceit
- p. 159
- Two Callings
- pp. 160-162
- In Honor / Chant Royale
- pp. 162-163
- For This New Year
- p. 164
- The Clam and the Lark
- pp. 164-165
- The “Old” Woman
- pp. 165-167
- Her Answer
- pp. 167-168
- My Lady’s Hat / A Pantun
- pp. 168-169
- The Purpose
- p. 170
- Missing the Way
- p. 170
- Human Living
- p. 171
- What Counts
- p. 171
- Step by Step
- p. 172
- Faith and Fact
- p. 173
- Where We Leave Off
- pp. 173-174
- Pushing into the Days
- p. 174
- For Each Day
- p. 174
- Strange Lands
- pp. 174-175
- Climb a Tree
- p. 175
- Human Pain
- pp. 175-176
- Labor is Prayer
- pp. 176-177
- The Little White Animals
- p. 178
- There is No Payment
- p. 179
- To the Wise—A Bargain
- pp. 179-180
- Song for Equal Suffrage
- pp. 180-181
- Water-lilies
- p. 181
- 13 Epigraphs to What Diantha Did
- pp. 181-184
- 13 Epigraphs to The Crux
- pp. 185-187
- We Stand as One
- pp. 187-188
- Wouldn’t You Think?
- pp. 188-189
- Woman’s Hour
- p. 189
- The Primal Power
- p. 190
- [I’m not feathers, beak, and wings]
- pp. 190-191
- Two Hundred Words
- p. 191
- A Hundred Years Hence
- pp. 191-192
- [I wait the coming year too sad for fear]
- pp. 192-193
- Sophia and Amelia
- p. 194
- The Crusade Hymn
- pp. 194-195
- The First Idealist
- p. 195
- Works Cited
- pp. 209-210
Additional Information
ISBN
9780815651789
Related ISBN(s)
9780815603047
MARC Record
OCLC
808345628
Pages
176
Launched on MUSE
2012-07-18
Language
English
Open Access
No