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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... flowers on Stems Or as in Jewellary Shops, do jems. from GODS DETERMINATIONS The Preface Infinity, when all things it beheld In Nothing, and of Nothing all did build, Upon what Base was fixt the Lath, wherein He turn'd this Globe, and ...
... flowers on Stems Or as in Jewellary Shops, do jems. from GODS DETERMINATIONS The Preface Infinity, when all things it beheld In Nothing, and of Nothing all did build, Upon what Base was fixt the Lath, wherein He turn'd this Globe, and ...
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... flowers, by fire that burns Aright, of Saphire Battlements up filld And sent in Jasper Vialls it would bee A pack of guilded Non-Sense unto thee. . . . . from [36] Meditation. Col. 1.18. He is the Head of the Body . . . . My Metaphors ...
... flowers, by fire that burns Aright, of Saphire Battlements up filld And sent in Jasper Vialls it would bee A pack of guilded Non-Sense unto thee. . . . . from [36] Meditation. Col. 1.18. He is the Head of the Body . . . . My Metaphors ...
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... Flowers of Paradise. Then cloath therewith mine Understanding, Will, Affections, Judgment, Conscience, Memory My Words, and Actions, that their shine may fill My wayes with glory and thee glorify. Then mine apparell shall display before ...
... Flowers of Paradise. Then cloath therewith mine Understanding, Will, Affections, Judgment, Conscience, Memory My Words, and Actions, that their shine may fill My wayes with glory and thee glorify. Then mine apparell shall display before ...
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... flower out brake. And after it my branch again did knot Brought out another Flowre its sweet breathd mate. One knot gave one tother the tothers place. Whence Checkling smiles fought in each others face ... Flowers for Glory breed, Whether.
... flower out brake. And after it my branch again did knot Brought out another Flowre its sweet breathd mate. One knot gave one tother the tothers place. Whence Checkling smiles fought in each others face ... Flowers for Glory breed, Whether.
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Allen Mandelbaum, Robert D. Richardson, Jr. I joy, may I sweet Flowers for Glory breed, Whether thou getst them green, or lets them seed. 7RICHARD STEERE (1643–1721) from A Monumental Memorial of Marine Mercy.
Allen Mandelbaum, Robert D. Richardson, Jr. I joy, may I sweet Flowers for Glory breed, Whether thou getst them green, or lets them seed. 7RICHARD STEERE (1643–1721) from A Monumental Memorial of Marine Mercy.
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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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