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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... Strange I Kept on the Field One Night The Wound-Dresser When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd O Captain! My Captain! A Noiseless Patient Spider A Prairie Sunset The Dismantled Ship Good-Bye My Fancy JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL from A Fable ...
... Strange I Kept on the Field One Night The Wound-Dresser When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd O Captain! My Captain! A Noiseless Patient Spider A Prairie Sunset The Dismantled Ship Good-Bye My Fancy JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL from A Fable ...
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... fault. The wise revere VII His heart was in his garden XVIII And change with hurried hand from Sonnets, Fourth Series VIII Nor strange it is, to us who walk from The Cricket The Refrigerium F.E.W. HARPER Bury Me in a Free Land Cover.
... fault. The wise revere VII His heart was in his garden XVIII And change with hurried hand from Sonnets, Fourth Series VIII Nor strange it is, to us who walk from The Cricket The Refrigerium F.E.W. HARPER Bury Me in a Free Land Cover.
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... strange, no God design'd To be a Part of Humane Kind: But wanton Nature, void of Rest, Moulded the brittle Clay in Jest. At last, a Fancy very odd Took me, this was the Land of Nod, Planted at first when Vagrant Cain, His Broter had ...
... strange, no God design'd To be a Part of Humane Kind: But wanton Nature, void of Rest, Moulded the brittle Clay in Jest. At last, a Fancy very odd Took me, this was the Land of Nod, Planted at first when Vagrant Cain, His Broter had ...
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... strange or true. “What a prodigious school! I'm sure “You've got a hundred here, or more. “A word, Sir, if you please.” I will— You girls, till I come in be still. “Come, we can dance to night—so you “Dismiss your brain-distracting crew ...
... strange or true. “What a prodigious school! I'm sure “You've got a hundred here, or more. “A word, Sir, if you please.” I will— You girls, till I come in be still. “Come, we can dance to night—so you “Dismiss your brain-distracting crew ...
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... strange fortune led He came to see the dying and the dead— He came—but anger so deform'd his eye, And such a faulchion glitter'd on his thigh, And such a gloom his visage darken'd o'er, And two such pistols in his hands he bore! That ...
... strange fortune led He came to see the dying and the dead— He came—but anger so deform'd his eye, And such a faulchion glitter'd on his thigh, And such a gloom his visage darken'd o'er, And two such pistols in his hands he bore! That ...
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