Three Centuries of American PoetryAllen Mandelbaum, Robert D. Richardson, Jr. A comprehensive overview of America's vast poetic heritage, Three Centuries of American Poetry features the work of some 150 of our nation's finest writers. It includes selections from Anne Bradstreet, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Emily Dickinson, Edgar Allan Poe, Walt Whitman, T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, e. e. cummings, Wallace Stevens, Robert Frost, and Gertrude Stein, as well as significant works of lesser-known American poets. From the Revolutionary and Civil Wars to the Romantic Era and the Gilded and Modern Ages, this unrivaled anthology also presents a memorable array of rare ballads, songs, hymns, spirituals, and carols that echo through our nation's history. Highlights include Native American poems, African American writings, and the works of Quakers, colonists, Huguenots, transcendentalists, scholars, slaves, politicians, journalists, and clergymen. These discerning selections demonstrate that the American canon of poetry is as diverse as the nation itself, and constantly evolving as we pass through time. Most important, this collection strongly reflects the peerless stylings that mark the American poetic experience as unique. Here, in one distinguished volume, are the many voices of the New World. |
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... Nor bridegroom's voice ere heard shall bee. In silence ever shalt thou lye; Adeiu, Adeiu; All's vanity. Then streight I 'gin my heart to chide, And did thy wealth on earth abide? Didst fix thy hope on mouldring dust, The arm of.
... Nor bridegroom's voice ere heard shall bee. In silence ever shalt thou lye; Adeiu, Adeiu; All's vanity. Then streight I 'gin my heart to chide, And did thy wealth on earth abide? Didst fix thy hope on mouldring dust, The arm of.
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... arm of flesh didst make thy trust? Raise up thy thoughts above the skye That dunghill mists away may flie. Thou hast an house on high erect, Fram'd by that mighty Architect, With glory richly furnished, Stands permanent though this bee ...
... arm of flesh didst make thy trust? Raise up thy thoughts above the skye That dunghill mists away may flie. Thou hast an house on high erect, Fram'd by that mighty Architect, With glory richly furnished, Stands permanent though this bee ...
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... arms, nor strength could touch. Who now must heale those wounds, or stop that blood The Heathen made, and drew into a flood? Who i'st must please our Cause? nor Trump nor Drum Nor Deputations; these alass are dumb, And Cannot speake ...
... arms, nor strength could touch. Who now must heale those wounds, or stop that blood The Heathen made, and drew into a flood? Who i'st must please our Cause? nor Trump nor Drum Nor Deputations; these alass are dumb, And Cannot speake ...
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... arms, whose pen and sword alike, As Catos did, my admireation strike In to his foes; while they confess withall It was there guilt stil'd him a Criminall. Onely this difference doth from truth proceed: They in the guilt, he in the name ...
... arms, whose pen and sword alike, As Catos did, my admireation strike In to his foes; while they confess withall It was there guilt stil'd him a Criminall. Onely this difference doth from truth proceed: They in the guilt, he in the name ...
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... arms more charming to behold Than orient pearls, encas'd in shining gold. His well turn'd legs like stately pillars stand Of marble, polish'd by a curious hand. His mien is noble and august his air, His countenance as Lebanon does ...
... arms more charming to behold Than orient pearls, encas'd in shining gold. His well turn'd legs like stately pillars stand Of marble, polish'd by a curious hand. His mien is noble and august his air, His countenance as Lebanon does ...
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Three Centuries of American Poetry, 1620-1923 Allen Mandelbaum,Robert D. Richardson No preview available - 1999 |
Three Centuries of American Poetry: 1620-1923 Allen Mandelbaum,Robert Richardson No preview available - 1999 |
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