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Poetic Justice: Rediscovering the Life and Work of Madison Cawein

Pate, Spencer Cawein

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2011, Bachelor of Science in Education, Miami University, School of Education and Allied Professions - Middle Childhood Education.
Madison Julius Cawein (b. March 23, 1865, d. December 8, 1914) was a prolific Kentucky poet – he was known as the “Keats of Kentucky,” as the majority of his work is regional romantic poetry in traditional verse forms – and also a distant relative of the author of this thesis. While Cawein was acclaimed and popular in his day, he is now all but forgotten, save for the recent discovery that T.S. Eliot likely plagiarized from his poetry. It is my contention not only that Cawein’s work is undeservedly neglected by readers and critics, but also that his oeuvre is a mirror to the cultural upheavals of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century; he provides a missing link between different literary periods. It is thus my intention to examine both Cawein’s life and the vagaries of his poetic career in the service of demonstrating why his quite fine work should be remembered in its own right. Furthermore, I provide a detailed analysis of Cawein’s poetry based upon a careful reading of his collected works, and in doing so, I also offer a concise anthology of some of Cawein’s best poems.
Tom Romano, PhD (Advisor)
Richard Turner, PhD (Committee Member)
Paul Cawein, PhD (Committee Member)
71 p.

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  • Pate, S. C. (2011). Poetic Justice: Rediscovering the Life and Work of Madison Cawein [Undergraduate thesis, Miami University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=muhonors1301406828

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Pate, Spencer. Poetic Justice: Rediscovering the Life and Work of Madison Cawein. 2011. Miami University, Undergraduate thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=muhonors1301406828.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Pate, Spencer. "Poetic Justice: Rediscovering the Life and Work of Madison Cawein." Undergraduate thesis, Miami University, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=muhonors1301406828

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)