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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... passing XXI A man said to the universe JAMES WELDON JOHNSON O Black and Unknown Bards Lift Every Voice and Sing LOLA RIDGE from The Alley PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Sympathy We Wear the Mask When All Is Done The Paradox The Poet GUY WETMORE ...
... passing XXI A man said to the universe JAMES WELDON JOHNSON O Black and Unknown Bards Lift Every Voice and Sing LOLA RIDGE from The Alley PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Sympathy We Wear the Mask When All Is Done The Paradox The Poet GUY WETMORE ...
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... pass their youth in summer season, Then follow thee into a better Region, Where winter's never felt by that sweet airy legion. 29 Man at the best a creature frail and vain, In knowledg ignorant, in strength but weak, Subject to sorrows ...
... pass their youth in summer season, Then follow thee into a better Region, Where winter's never felt by that sweet airy legion. 29 Man at the best a creature frail and vain, In knowledg ignorant, in strength but weak, Subject to sorrows ...
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... Pass o're my Faults: shine forth, bright sun: arise Enthrone thy Rosy-selfe within mine Eyes. [6] Another Meditation at the same Time Am I thy Gold? Or Purse, Lord, for thy Wealth; Whether in mine, or mint refinde for thee? Ime counted ...
... Pass o're my Faults: shine forth, bright sun: arise Enthrone thy Rosy-selfe within mine Eyes. [6] Another Meditation at the same Time Am I thy Gold? Or Purse, Lord, for thy Wealth; Whether in mine, or mint refinde for thee? Ime counted ...
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... Passes take, and 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 ...
... Passes take, and 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 ...
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Three Centuries of American Poetry, 1620-1923 Allen Mandelbaum,Robert D. Richardson No preview available - 1999 |
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