The Man with the Hoe and Other Poems
work by Markham
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discussed in biography
- In Edwin Markham
…San Francisco Examiner of “The Man with the Hoe.” Inspired by Jean-François Millet’s painting, Markham made the French peasant the symbol of the exploited classes throughout the world. Its success enabled Markham to devote himself to writing and lecturing—in which he concerned himself with social and industrial, as well as…
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place in American literature
- In American literature: Critics of the gilded age
Edwin Markham’s “Man with the Hoe” (1899) was a protest against the exploitation of labour and vaguely threatened revolution; it immediately stimulated nationwide interest. A year later William Vaughn Moody’s “Ode in Time of Hesitation” denounced growing U.S. imperialism as a desertion of earlier principles; his “On…
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