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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... Walk Softly (Shaker Hymn, n.d.) I Will Bow and Be Simple (Shaker Hymn, n.d.) Home, Sweet Home (John Howard Payne, 1823) Oh Thou, to Whom in Ancient Time (John Pierpont, 1824) III - YOUNG AMERICA: THE ROMANTIC ERA: 1826–1859 WILLIAM ...
... Walk Softly (Shaker Hymn, n.d.) I Will Bow and Be Simple (Shaker Hymn, n.d.) Home, Sweet Home (John Howard Payne, 1823) Oh Thou, to Whom in Ancient Time (John Pierpont, 1824) III - YOUNG AMERICA: THE ROMANTIC ERA: 1826–1859 WILLIAM ...
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... 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.
... 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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... Walks at Midnight The Leaden-Eyed WALLACE STEVENS Peter Quince at the Clavier Disillusionment of Ten O'clock Sunday Morning Domination of Black Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird Metaphors of a Magnifico Anecdote of the Jar The ...
... Walks at Midnight The Leaden-Eyed WALLACE STEVENS Peter Quince at the Clavier Disillusionment of Ten O'clock Sunday Morning Domination of Black Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird Metaphors of a Magnifico Anecdote of the Jar The ...
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... walk, none ill I'le feare: because thou art with mee, thy rod, and staffe my comfort are. For mee a table thou hast spread, in presense of my foes: thou dost annoynt my head with oyle, my cup it over-flowes. Goodness & mercy surely ...
... walk, none ill I'le feare: because thou art with mee, thy rod, and staffe my comfort are. For mee a table thou hast spread, in presense of my foes: thou dost annoynt my head with oyle, my cup it over-flowes. Goodness & mercy surely ...
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... walk'd his lonely round, Beneath my feet substantial darkness lay, And screams were heard from the distemper'd ground. 110 Nor look'd I back, till to a far off wood, Trembling with fear, my weary feet had sped— Dark was the night, but ...
... walk'd his lonely round, Beneath my feet substantial darkness lay, And screams were heard from the distemper'd ground. 110 Nor look'd I back, till to a far off wood, Trembling with fear, my weary feet had sped— Dark was the night, but ...
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Three Centuries of American Poetry, 1620-1923 Allen Mandelbaum,Robert D. Richardson No preview available - 1999 |
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