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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... keep the Sabbath going to Church 326 I cannot dance upon my Toes 341 After great pain, a formal feeling comes 346 Not probable—The barest Chance 352 Perhaps I asked too large 355 'Tis Opposites—entice 356 The Day that I was crowned.
... keep the Sabbath going to Church 326 I cannot dance upon my Toes 341 After great pain, a formal feeling comes 346 Not probable—The barest Chance 352 Perhaps I asked too large 355 'Tis Opposites—entice 356 The Day that I was crowned.
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... to end his brothers dayes, Upon whose blood his future good he hopes to raise. 14 There Abel keeps his sheep, no ill he thinks, His brother comes, then acts his fratricide, The Virgin Earth, of blood her first draught drinks But.
... to end his brothers dayes, Upon whose blood his future good he hopes to raise. 14 There Abel keeps his sheep, no ill he thinks, His brother comes, then acts his fratricide, The Virgin Earth, of blood her first draught drinks But.
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... keep. And in these Quarters lodge thy Odours sweet. . . . . from [39] Meditation. from 1 Joh. 2.1. If any man sin, we have an Advocate. My Sin! my Sin, My God, these Cursed Dregs, Green, Yellow, Blew streakt Poyson hellish, ranck, Bubs ...
... keep. And in these Quarters lodge thy Odours sweet. . . . . from [39] Meditation. from 1 Joh. 2.1. If any man sin, we have an Advocate. My Sin! my Sin, My God, these Cursed Dregs, Green, Yellow, Blew streakt Poyson hellish, ranck, Bubs ...
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... keeps its House. Nature's Alembick 't is, Its true: that stills The Noblest Spirits terrene fruits possess, Yet, oh! the Relicks in the Caldron will Proove all things else, Guts, Garbage, Rotteness. And all its pipes but Sincks of nasty ...
... keeps its House. Nature's Alembick 't is, Its true: that stills The Noblest Spirits terrene fruits possess, Yet, oh! the Relicks in the Caldron will Proove all things else, Guts, Garbage, Rotteness. And all its pipes but Sincks of nasty ...
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... keep on thy lying Trade to gain: I thee withstand, the Truth for to maintain; A Servant fit thou art for evil work, To deal well sharp with thee will not thee hurt? Thou Lives at ease, while others Plow and Sow, Their labour give, for ...
... keep on thy lying Trade to gain: I thee withstand, the Truth for to maintain; A Servant fit thou art for evil work, To deal well sharp with thee will not thee hurt? Thou Lives at ease, while others Plow and Sow, Their labour give, for ...
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Three Centuries of American Poetry, 1620-1923 Allen Mandelbaum,Robert D. Richardson No preview available - 1999 |
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