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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... Heaven Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight The Leaden-Eyed WALLACE STEVENS Peter Quince at the Clavier Disillusionment of Ten O'clock Sunday Morning Domination of Black Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird Metaphors of a Magnifico ...
... Heaven Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight The Leaden-Eyed WALLACE STEVENS Peter Quince at the Clavier Disillusionment of Ten O'clock Sunday Morning Domination of Black Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird Metaphors of a Magnifico ...
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... Heaven from Spring and All SARA TEASDALE I Shall not Care Let It Be Forgotten On the Dunes The Long Hill DONALD EVANS Dinner at the Hotel de la Tigresse Verte EZRA POUND Sestina: Altaforte The Seafarer An Immorality A Virginal Portrait ...
... Heaven from Spring and All SARA TEASDALE I Shall not Care Let It Be Forgotten On the Dunes The Long Hill DONALD EVANS Dinner at the Hotel de la Tigresse Verte EZRA POUND Sestina: Altaforte The Seafarer An Immorality A Virginal Portrait ...
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... Heaven then 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 ...
... Heaven then 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 ...
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... Heaven below Till inkefac'd sin had it with poyson stockt And Chast this Paradise away into Heav'ns upmost Loft, and ... Heaven, and Earth where Heavens Bright glory all In streams fell on thee, as a floodgate and, Like Sun Beams through ...
... Heaven below Till inkefac'd sin had it with poyson stockt And Chast this Paradise away into Heav'ns upmost Loft, and ... Heaven, and Earth where Heavens Bright glory all In streams fell on thee, as a floodgate and, Like Sun Beams through ...
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... Heavens-lost Happiness restor'd by thee. Shall Heaven, and Earth's bright Glory all up lie Like Sun Beams bundled in the sun, in thee? Dost thou sit Rose at Table Head, where I Do sit, and Carv'st no morsell sweet for mee? So much ...
... Heavens-lost Happiness restor'd by thee. Shall Heaven, and Earth's bright Glory all up lie Like Sun Beams bundled in the sun, in thee? Dost thou sit Rose at Table Head, where I Do sit, and Carv'st no morsell sweet for mee? So much ...
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Three Centuries of American Poetry, 1620-1923 Allen Mandelbaum,Robert D. Richardson No preview available - 1999 |
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