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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... Earth Spirit AMERICAN INDIAN POEMS: 1826–1859 Chant to the Fire-fly From the South: I From the South: II SONGS, HYMNS, CAROLS, AND PARLOR POEMS: 1826–1859 The Lament of the Captive (Richard H. Wilde, 1819) A Visit from St. Nicholas ...
... Earth Spirit AMERICAN INDIAN POEMS: 1826–1859 Chant to the Fire-fly From the South: I From the South: II SONGS, HYMNS, CAROLS, AND PARLOR POEMS: 1826–1859 The Lament of the Captive (Richard H. Wilde, 1819) A Visit from St. Nicholas ...
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... in Thee, 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.
... in Thee, 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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... Earth was here, no winter & no night. 3 Then on a stately Oak I cast mine Eye, Whose ruffling top the Clouds seem'd to aspire; How long since thou wast in thine Infancy? Thy strength, and stature, more thy years admire, Hath hundred ...
... Earth was here, no winter & no night. 3 Then on a stately Oak I cast mine Eye, Whose ruffling top the Clouds seem'd to aspire; How long since thou wast in thine Infancy? Thy strength, and stature, more thy years admire, Hath hundred ...
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... Earth reflects her glances in thy face. Birds, insects, Animals with Vegative, Thy heat from death and dulness doth revive: And in the darksome womb of fruitful nature dive. 6 Thy swift Annual, and diurnal Course, Thy daily streight ...
... Earth reflects her glances in thy face. Birds, insects, Animals with Vegative, Thy heat from death and dulness doth revive: And in the darksome womb of fruitful nature dive. 6 Thy swift Annual, and diurnal Course, Thy daily streight ...
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... Earth, and Fatlings each do 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 ...
... Earth, and Fatlings each do 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 ...
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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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