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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... 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.
... 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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... Pain—has an Element of Blank 657 I dwell in Possibility 675 Essential Oils—are wrung 680 Each Life Converges to some Centre 701 A Thought went up my mind today 709 Publication—is the Auction 724 It's easy to invent a Life 729 Alter ...
... Pain—has an Element of Blank 657 I dwell in Possibility 675 Essential Oils—are wrung 680 Each Life Converges to some Centre 701 A Thought went up my mind today 709 Publication—is the Auction 724 It's easy to invent a Life 729 Alter ...
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... pain, and sweat of face: A penalty impos'd on his backsliding Race. 12 Here sits our Grandame in retired place, And in her lap, her bloody Cain new born, The weeping Imp oft looks her in the face, Bewails his unknown hap, and fate ...
... pain, and sweat of face: A penalty impos'd on his backsliding Race. 12 Here sits our Grandame in retired place, And in her lap, her bloody Cain new born, The weeping Imp oft looks her in the face, Bewails his unknown hap, and fate ...
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... pain, Each storm his state, his mind, his body break, From some of these he never finds cessation, But day or night, within, without, vexation, Troubles from foes, from friends, from dearest, near'st Relation. 30 And yet this sinfull ...
... pain, Each storm his state, his mind, his body break, From some of these he never finds cessation, But day or night, within, without, vexation, Troubles from foes, from friends, from dearest, near'st Relation. 30 And yet this sinfull ...
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... by hell they're spurd: And load my Soule with swagging loads of pains. Black Imps, young Divells, snap, bite, drag to bring And pick mee headlong hells dread Whirle Poole in. . . . . from PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS: SECOND SERIES from.
... by hell they're spurd: And load my Soule with swagging loads of pains. Black Imps, young Divells, snap, bite, drag to bring And pick mee headlong hells dread Whirle Poole in. . . . . from PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS: SECOND SERIES from.
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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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