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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... Wall The Death of the Hired Man After Apple-Picking The Road Not Taken The Oven Bird Birches 'Out, Out—' ROBERT W. SERVICE The Cremation of Sam McGee “EDWARD E. PARAMORE, JR.” The Ballad of Yukon Jake TRUMBULL STICKNEY Mnemosyne Live ...
... Wall The Death of the Hired Man After Apple-Picking The Road Not Taken The Oven Bird Birches 'Out, Out—' ROBERT W. SERVICE The Cremation of Sam McGee “EDWARD E. PARAMORE, JR.” The Ballad of Yukon Jake TRUMBULL STICKNEY Mnemosyne Live ...
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... Wall alive all spruice, and crouce Its Base, and Vile. And baseness keeps its House. Nature's Alembick 't is, Its true: that stills The Noblest Spirits terrene fruits possess, Yet, oh! the Relicks in the Caldron will Proove all things ...
... Wall alive all spruice, and crouce Its Base, and Vile. And baseness keeps its House. Nature's Alembick 't is, Its true: that stills The Noblest Spirits terrene fruits possess, Yet, oh! the Relicks in the Caldron will Proove all things ...
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... Walls: And sanctifies the house before it falls. . . . . Oh! make my Body, Lord, Although its vile, Thy warehouse where Grace doth her treasures lay. And Cleanse the house and ery Room from Soile. Deck all my Rooms with thy rich Grace I ...
... Walls: And sanctifies the house before it falls. . . . . Oh! make my Body, Lord, Although its vile, Thy warehouse where Grace doth her treasures lay. And Cleanse the house and ery Room from Soile. Deck all my Rooms with thy rich Grace I ...
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... walls, that meet the solar flame. Succeeding sovereigns spread their bounds afar, By arts of peace and temper'd force of war; Till these surrounding realms the sceptre own, And grateful millions hail the genial sun. . . . . In those ...
... walls, that meet the solar flame. Succeeding sovereigns spread their bounds afar, By arts of peace and temper'd force of war; Till these surrounding realms the sceptre own, And grateful millions hail the genial sun. . . . . In those ...
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