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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... Silence The Conqueror Worm Lenore The Raven Ulalume—A Ballad The Bells A Dream Within a Dream For Annie Eldorado Annabel Lee Monody on Doctor Olmsted OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES from An After-Dinner Poem (Terpsichore) Aestivation Ballad of ...
... Silence The Conqueror Worm Lenore The Raven Ulalume—A Ballad The Bells A Dream Within a Dream For Annie Eldorado Annabel Lee Monody on Doctor Olmsted OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES from An After-Dinner Poem (Terpsichore) Aestivation Ballad of ...
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... silent night when rest I took, For sorrow neer I did not look, I waken'd was with thundring nois And Piteous shreiks of dreadfull voice. That fearfull sound of fire and fire, Let no man know is my Desire. I, starting up, the light did ...
... silent night when rest I took, For sorrow neer I did not look, I waken'd was with thundring nois And Piteous shreiks of dreadfull voice. That fearfull sound of fire and fire, Let no man know is my Desire. I, starting up, the light did ...
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... , Nor bridegroom's voice ere heard shall bee. In silence ever shalt thou lye; Adeiu, Adeiu; All's vanity. Then streight I 'gin my heart to chide, And did thy wealth on earth abide? Didst fix thy hope on mouldring dust, The arm of.
... , Nor bridegroom's voice ere heard shall bee. In silence ever shalt thou lye; Adeiu, Adeiu; All's vanity. Then streight I 'gin my heart to chide, And did thy wealth on earth abide? Didst fix thy hope on mouldring dust, The arm of.
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... Silent alone, where none or saw, or heard, In pathless paths I lead my wandring feet, My humble Eyes to lofty Skyes I rear'd To sing some Song, my mazed Muse thought meet. My great Creator I would magnifie, That nature had, thus decked ...
... Silent alone, where none or saw, or heard, In pathless paths I lead my wandring feet, My humble Eyes to lofty Skyes I rear'd To sing some Song, my mazed Muse thought meet. My great Creator I would magnifie, That nature had, thus decked ...
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... silent: Now wee must complaine Since thou, in him, hast more then thousand slane Whose lives and safetys did so much depend On him there lif, with him there lives must end. If't be a sin to thinke Death brib'd can bee Wee must be guilty ...
... silent: Now wee must complaine Since thou, in him, hast more then thousand slane Whose lives and safetys did so much depend On him there lif, with him there lives must end. If't be a sin to thinke Death brib'd can bee Wee must be guilty ...
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