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Book

English

Davidson, Karen Lynn, Derr, Jill Mulvay

Eliza R. Snow : The Complete Poetry

Provo, Utah and Salt Lake City, Utah

Brigham Young University Press and University of Utah Press

2009

[2010 Mormon Historical Association Winner for Best Documentary Editing]

"Hymns by Eliza R. Snow'such as "O My Father," "Behold the Great Redeemer Die," and "How Great the Wisdom and the Love"'evoke powerful religious imagery. In her hymns and in her hundreds of other poems, Snow captured nineteenth-century Mormonism, where revelation and history intersected and Latter-day Saints labored for the meeting of heaven and earth they named Zion. Snow's poems convey many sublime truths about the human condition. As Zion's honored spokeswoman, no public event in the Mormon community from the 1840s to the 1880s was complete without a contribution from her. "Through [Snow's poems] the names of many of the actors in the drama of Mormonism, will be handed down to posterity," wrote Emmeline B. Wells. Intelligent, well-read, and articulate, Snow also had an understanding of the scriptures. Through her position in the inner circles of church leadership, her poetry, and her gifts as a spokeswoman, she became one of the most influential and best-known women in Mormon history. As a result, this collection is as much biographical, historical, and theological as literary." [Publisher's Abstract]

Award Winner
Literary arts, poetry
Snow, Eliza Roxcy, writings
Women, literary arts

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"A Continuation of the Seeds" : Joseph Smith and Spirit Birth
"A Mother There" : A Survey of Historical Teachings about Mother in Heaven
"Redeemed from the Curse Placed upon Her" : Dialogic Discourse on Eve in the Woman's
Exponent
"Saviors on Mount Zion" : Mormon Sacramentalism, Mortality, and the Baptism for the Dead
A House Full of Females : Plural Marriage and Women's Rights in Early Mormonism, 1835-1870
Americanist Approaches to the Book of Mormon
Brigham Young : Pioneer Prophet
Early Mormon Patriarchy and the Paradoxes of Democratic Religiosity in Jacksonian America
Emmeline B. Wells : An Intimate History
Female Ritual Healing in Mormonism
In Heaven as It Is on Earth : Joseph Smith and the Early Mormon Conquest of Death
Letters on Mormon Polygamy and Progeny : Eliza R. Snow and Martin Luther Holbrook, 1866-1869
Mormon Women's History : Beyond Biography
Parley P. Pratt : The Apostle Paul of Mormonism
Race and the Making of the Mormon People
Race and the Making of the Mormon People
The Educational Philosophy of Eliza R. Snow
The Mormon Jesus : A Biography
The Possessive Investment in Rightness : White Supremacy and the Mormon Movement
The Power of Godliness : Mormon Liturgy and Cosmology
To Expound Scriptures, and to Exhort the Church : Nineteenth-Century Mormon Women and Public Discourse
Toward a Catholic History of Mormonism
Women and Mormonism : Historical and Contemporary Perspectives