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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... beneath so slight a film 211 Come slowly—Eden! 214 I taste a liquor never brewed 216 Safe in their Alabaster Chambers (1859 and 1861) 234 You're right—“the way is narrow” 241 I like a look of Agony 249 Wild Nights—Wild Nights! 254 “Hope ...
... beneath so slight a film 211 Come slowly—Eden! 214 I taste a liquor never brewed 216 Safe in their Alabaster Chambers (1859 and 1861) 234 You're right—“the way is narrow” 241 I like a look of Agony 249 Wild Nights—Wild Nights! 254 “Hope ...
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... beneath the heavens, we have not neglected the impassioned plaint that rose from the fields of slavery, and from the people whom our hunger for land and our labors dispossessed. In sum, the poet is not a historian, but his voice begins ...
... beneath the heavens, we have not neglected the impassioned plaint that rose from the fields of slavery, and from the people whom our hunger for land and our labors dispossessed. In sum, the poet is not a historian, but his voice begins ...
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... beneath the weight Of sumptuous dishes, serv'd in massy plate; The forest ne'er was search'd for food for me, Not from my hounds the timorous hare does flee: No leaden thunder strikes the fowl in air, Nor from my shaft the winged death ...
... beneath the weight Of sumptuous dishes, serv'd in massy plate; The forest ne'er was search'd for food for me, Not from my hounds the timorous hare does flee: No leaden thunder strikes the fowl in air, Nor from my shaft the winged death ...
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... beneath. From numerous wounds, with crimson flood She stains the frothy seas, And grasps, and blows her latest blood, While quivering life decays. With joyful hearts we see her die, And on the surface lay; While all with eager haste ...
... beneath. From numerous wounds, with crimson flood She stains the frothy seas, And grasps, and blows her latest blood, While quivering life decays. With joyful hearts we see her die, And on the surface lay; While all with eager haste ...
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... Beneath my feet substantial darkness lay, And screams were heard from the distemper'd ground. 110 Nor look'd I back, till to a far off wood, Trembling with fear, my weary feet had sped— Dark was the night, but at the inchanted dome I ...
... Beneath my feet substantial darkness lay, And screams were heard from the distemper'd ground. 110 Nor look'd I back, till to a far off wood, Trembling with fear, my weary feet had sped— Dark was the night, but at the inchanted dome I ...
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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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