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The Conquered Banner was the most popular of the post-Civil War Confederate poems.〔''Catholicism and American Freedom,'', John McGreevy Norton and Co., New York 2003, p. 112.〕 It was written by Roman Catholic priest and Confederate Army chaplain, Father Abram Joseph Ryan, who is sometimes called the "poet laureate of the postwar south" and "poet-priest of the Confederacy."〔〔''The Irish in the South, 1815-1877'' by David T. Gleeson, reviewed by James M. Woods, ''The Journal of Southern History,'' Vol. 69, No. 2 (May, 2003), pp. 415-416.〕 The poem was first published on June 24, 1865, in the pro-Confederate Roman Catholic newspaper the ''New York Freeman'' under the pen-name "Moina".〔〔''The southern poems of the war,'' Emily Virginia Mason, John Murphy & Co., Baltimore, 1889, p. 426.〕 It made Father Ryan famous〔''Furl that banner: the life of Abram J. Ryan, poet-priest of the South,'' David O'Connell, Mercer University Press, 2006, p. 60-62.〕 and became one of the best known post-war South, memorized and recited by generations of Southern schoolchildren.〔''For, Though Conquered, They Adore It,'' by Bertram Wyatt-Brown, reviewed in ''The Review of Politics,'' Vol. 68, No. 1 (Winter, 2006), pp. 147-150.〕 Ryan told an interviewer that he wrote the ''Conquered Banner'' in Knoxville, Tennessee shortly after General Lee's surrender at Appomattox, "When my mind was engrossed with the thought of our dead soldiers and our dead Cause."〔 David O'Connell has described ''Conquered Banner'' as echoing Emerson's extremely popular Concord Hymn. According to O'Connell readers would have unconsciously have thought of Emerson's poem ''Concord'' when Ryan used the word "conquered", and by echoing Emerson's reference to a furled flag, Ryan would have enhanced the patriotic resonance his poem had among Southern readers brought up reciting Emerson's Concord Hymn.〔 The final verse reads: Furl that banner, softly, slowly! This is taken to be Ryan's statement that however noble he and others thought the Confederate cause had been, the defeat was final, and the Confederate idea should be put away forever, along with the Confederate flag.〔''The Victorian homefront: American thought and culture, 1860-1880," Louise L. Stevenson, Cornell University Press, 2001, p. 147.〕 Attorney and Southerner Hannis Taylor wrote of the impact of Father Ryan's poem on readers sympathetic to the Confederacy, "Only those who lived in the South in that day, and passed under the spell of that mighty song, can properly estimate its power as it fell upon the victims of a fallen cause."〔''Baptized in Blood: The Religion of the Lost Cause, 1865-1920,'' University of Georgia Press, 2009, pp. 60-61.〕 The poem reached the height of its popularity between 1890 and 1920.〔 In 1941 Carl Van Doren included the poem in ''The Patriotic Anthology,'' writing that to omit Southern "expressions of patriotism" would be to "falsify the record and also impoverish it."〔"New Editions," Edward Larocque Tinker, Aug. 31, 1941, New York Times.〕 ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Conquered Banner」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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