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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... bring, On Abels gift the fire descends from Skies, But no such sign on false Cain's offering; With sullen hateful looks he goes his wayes. Hath thousand thoughts to end his brothers dayes, Upon whose blood his future good he hopes to ...
... bring, On Abels gift the fire descends from Skies, But no such sign on false Cain's offering; With sullen hateful looks he goes his wayes. Hath thousand thoughts to end his brothers dayes, Upon whose blood his future good he hopes to ...
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... Christ dy'd; Whom for his own, by wayes unknown to men, he sanctify'd. 52 The glorious Judge will priviledge nor Emperour, nor King: But every one that hath mis-done doth into Judgment bring. And every one that hath mis-done,
... Christ dy'd; Whom for his own, by wayes unknown to men, he sanctify'd. 52 The glorious Judge will priviledge nor Emperour, nor King: But every one that hath mis-done doth into Judgment bring. And every one that hath mis-done,
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Allen Mandelbaum, Robert D. Richardson, Jr. doth into Judgment bring. And every one that hath mis-done, the Judge impartially Condemneth to eternal wo, and endless misery. C 5JOHN COTTON OF 'QUEEN'S REEK' (1640–1669) Bacons Epitaph Death.
Allen Mandelbaum, Robert D. Richardson, Jr. doth into Judgment bring. And every one that hath mis-done, the Judge impartially Condemneth to eternal wo, and endless misery. C 5JOHN COTTON OF 'QUEEN'S REEK' (1640–1669) Bacons Epitaph Death.
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... bring Truth Crown'd with freedom, and from danger free, To sound his praises to posterity. Here let him rest; while wee this truth report, Hee's gon from hence unto a higher Court To pleade his Cause: where he by this doth know Whether ...
... bring Truth Crown'd with freedom, and from danger free, To sound his praises to posterity. Here let him rest; while wee this truth report, Hee's gon from hence unto a higher Court To pleade his Cause: where he by this doth know Whether ...
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... : by hell they're spurd: And load my Soule with swagging loads of pains. Black Imps, young Divells, snap, bite, drag to bring And pick mee headlong hells dread Whirle Poole in. . . . . from PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS: SECOND SERIES from.
... : by hell they're spurd: And load my Soule with swagging loads of pains. Black Imps, young Divells, snap, bite, drag to bring And pick mee headlong hells dread Whirle Poole in. . . . . from PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS: SECOND SERIES from.
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Three Centuries of American Poetry, 1620-1923 Allen Mandelbaum,Robert D. Richardson No preview available - 1999 |
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