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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... Morning after Woe 365 Dare you see a Soul at the White Heat? 367 Over and over, like a Tune 376 Of Course—I prayed 377 To lose one's faith—surpass 378 I saw no Way—The Heavens were stitched 383 Exhilaration—is within 384 No Rack can ...
... Morning after Woe 365 Dare you see a Soul at the White Heat? 367 Over and over, like a Tune 376 Of Course—I prayed 377 To lose one's faith—surpass 378 I saw no Way—The Heavens were stitched 383 Exhilaration—is within 384 No Rack can ...
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... You Love Me JOYCE KILMER Trees H. D. [HILDA DOOLITTLE] Heat Orchard Oread The Islands Song Pear Tree Lethe JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Clipper Ships MARIANNE MOORE Poetry T. S. ELIOT Preludes The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock Morning at the.
... You Love Me JOYCE KILMER Trees H. D. [HILDA DOOLITTLE] Heat Orchard Oread The Islands Song Pear Tree Lethe JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Clipper Ships MARIANNE MOORE Poetry T. S. ELIOT Preludes The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock Morning at the.
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... Morning at the Window Gerontion The Hippopotamus The Waste Land The Boston Evening Transcript Conversation Galante La Figlia che Piange FENTON JOHNSON Children of the Sun Tired ALAN SEEGER I Have a Rendez-Vous with Death CONRAD AIKEN ...
... Morning at the Window Gerontion The Hippopotamus The Waste Land The Boston Evening Transcript Conversation Galante La Figlia che Piange FENTON JOHNSON Children of the Sun Tired ALAN SEEGER I Have a Rendez-Vous with Death CONRAD AIKEN ...
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... (George Bennard, 1913) St. Louis Blues (W. C. Handy, 1914) Oh! How I Hate to Get up in the Morning (Irving Berlin, 1918) Look for the Silver Lining (Jerome Kern, 1920) Stairway to Paradise (B. G. De Sylva and Arthur Francis,
... (George Bennard, 1913) St. Louis Blues (W. C. Handy, 1914) Oh! How I Hate to Get up in the Morning (Irving Berlin, 1918) Look for the Silver Lining (Jerome Kern, 1920) Stairway to Paradise (B. G. De Sylva and Arthur Francis,
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... Morning.” We have grouped our many soloists in historical chapterscantos-contexts, stages in America's way(s); and we have ordered the endnotes, too, in accord with the birth dates of the poets. In sectioning off those time contexts, we ...
... Morning.” We have grouped our many soloists in historical chapterscantos-contexts, stages in America's way(s); and we have ordered the endnotes, too, in accord with the birth dates of the poets. In sectioning off those time contexts, we ...
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