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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... Spring 1463 A Route of Evanescence 1624 Apparently with no surprise 1651 A Word made Flesh is seldom 1732 My life closed twice before its close 1755 To make a prairie 1760 Elysium is as far as to 1765 That Love is all there is CELIA ...
... Spring 1463 A Route of Evanescence 1624 Apparently with no surprise 1651 A Word made Flesh is seldom 1732 My life closed twice before its close 1755 To make a prairie 1760 Elysium is as far as to 1765 That Love is all there is CELIA ...
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Allen Mandelbaum, Robert D. Richardson, Jr. The Widow's Lament in Springtime To Mark Anthony in Heaven from Spring and All SARA TEASDALE I Shall not Care Let It Be Forgotten On the Dunes The Long Hill DONALD EVANS Dinner at the Hotel de ...
Allen Mandelbaum, Robert D. Richardson, Jr. The Widow's Lament in Springtime To Mark Anthony in Heaven from Spring and All SARA TEASDALE I Shall not Care Let It Be Forgotten On the Dunes The Long Hill DONALD EVANS Dinner at the Hotel de ...
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... Spring Pastoral GEORGIA JOHNSON I Want to Die While 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 ...
... Spring Pastoral GEORGIA JOHNSON I Want to Die While 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 ...
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... Spring returns, and they more youthfull made; But Man grows old, lies down, remains where once he's laid. 19 By birth more noble then those creatures all, Yet seems by nature and by custome curs'd, No sooner born, but grief and care ...
... Spring returns, and they more youthfull made; But Man grows old, lies down, remains where once he's laid. 19 By birth more noble then those creatures all, Yet seems by nature and by custome curs'd, No sooner born, but grief and care ...
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... Spring Of tears arise, and cleare this filth away. Lord, let thy spirit raise my sighings till These Pipes my soule do with thy sweetness fill. Earth once was Paradise of Heaven below Till inkefac'd sin had it with poyson stockt And ...
... Spring Of tears arise, and cleare this filth away. Lord, let thy spirit raise my sighings till These Pipes my soule do with thy sweetness fill. Earth once was Paradise of Heaven below Till inkefac'd sin had it with poyson stockt And ...
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Three Centuries of American Poetry, 1620-1923 Allen Mandelbaum,Robert D. Richardson No preview available - 1999 |
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