Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: The power of (poetic) promises
  • Truth and reconciliation : the case of "the Monster Brandt"
  • Romanticism and removal : Elias Boudinot, Felicia Hemans, and the Cherokee Phoenix
  • Digressive diplomacy : George Copway and Byron's lines on the Rhine
  • "Always build a fence around the king's word" : Sol Plaatje and The deserted village
  • Petitions and repetitions : Rēweti Kōhere and the ashes of Byron and Macaulay
  • Conclusion: Coming to terms with Romantic poetry.