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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... 1826–1859 WILLIAM BRYANT Thanatopsis from The Prairies Green River To Cole, the Painter, Departing for Europe CULLEN LYDIA H. SIGOURNEY The Indian's Welcome to the Pilgrim Fathers from The Stars Death of an Infant GEORGE MOSES HORTON.
... 1826–1859 WILLIAM BRYANT Thanatopsis from The Prairies Green River To Cole, the Painter, Departing for Europe CULLEN LYDIA H. SIGOURNEY The Indian's Welcome to the Pilgrim Fathers from The Stars Death of an Infant GEORGE MOSES HORTON.
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Allen Mandelbaum, Robert D. Richardson, Jr. from The Stars Death of an Infant GEORGE MOSES HORTON Early Affection EDWARD COOTE PINKNEY On Parting RALPH WALDO EMERSON The Sphinx Each and All Hamatreya The Rhodora The Snowstorm Ode ...
Allen Mandelbaum, Robert D. Richardson, Jr. from The Stars Death of an Infant GEORGE MOSES HORTON Early Affection EDWARD COOTE PINKNEY On Parting RALPH WALDO EMERSON The Sphinx Each and All Hamatreya The Rhodora The Snowstorm Ode ...
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... Stars that pave the Heavens Streets. It hands me All, my heart, and hand to thee And up doth lodge them in thy persons Lodge And as a Golden bridg ore it to mee Thee, and thine All to me, and never dodge. In this small Ship a mutuall ...
... Stars that pave the Heavens Streets. It hands me All, my heart, and hand to thee And up doth lodge them in thy persons Lodge And as a Golden bridg ore it to mee Thee, and thine All to me, and never dodge. In this small Ship a mutuall ...
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... star. His head is wisdom's spacious theatre, Riches of grace and beauty there appear. A down his shoulders with becoming pride Falls fine hair in beauteous ringlets tied. His sparkling eyes in splendent luster vie With the twin stars ...
... star. His head is wisdom's spacious theatre, Riches of grace and beauty there appear. A down his shoulders with becoming pride Falls fine hair in beauteous ringlets tied. His sparkling eyes in splendent luster vie With the twin stars ...
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... stars on either side, And glittering moons were seen below. But when the tide had ebbed away, The scene fantastic with it fled, A bank of mud around me lay, And sea-weed on the river's bed. The Hurricane Happy the man who, safe on shore ...
... stars on either side, And glittering moons were seen below. But when the tide had ebbed away, The scene fantastic with it fled, A bank of mud around me lay, And sea-weed on the river's bed. The Hurricane Happy the man who, safe on shore ...
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Three Centuries of American Poetry, 1620-1923 Allen Mandelbaum,Robert D. Richardson No preview available - 1999 |
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