Description: This complete scholarly edition of the poems of Jones Very (1813-80) provides the requisite materials for a major reappraisal of his work and standing among the significant figures of American Transcendentalism. Collecting 862 poems, the volume contains all of Very's known poems, including much previously unpublished or uncollected material.
Brief description: HELEN R. DEESE is the Caroline Healey Dall editor for the Massachusetts Historical Society and a professor of English emerita at Tennessee Technological University. She lives in Flint and Ann Arbor, Michigan. Her books include Robert Lowell: Essays on the Poetry (coedited with Steven Gould Axelrod), Daughter of Boston, and volumes in the Selected Journals of Caroline Healey Dall.