Three Centuries of American Poetry, 1620-1923Allen Mandelbaum, Robert D. Richardson A comprehensive overview of America's vast poetic heritage,Three Centuries of American Poetryfeatures 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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... Tiresias , Theban , Holding his golden wand , knew me and spoke first : " Man of ill hour , why come a second time , Leaving the sunlight , facing the sunless dead , and this joyless region ? Stand from the fosse , move back , leave me ...
... Tiresias , Theban , Holding his golden wand , knew me and spoke first : " Man of ill hour , why come a second time , Leaving the sunlight , facing the sunless dead , and this joyless region ? Stand from the fosse , move back , leave me ...
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... Tiresias have foresuffered all Enacted on this same divan or bed ; I who have sat by Thebes below the wall And walked among the lowest of the dead . ) Bestows one final patronising kiss , And gropes his way , finding the stairs unlit ...
... Tiresias have foresuffered all Enacted on this same divan or bed ; I who have sat by Thebes below the wall And walked among the lowest of the dead . ) Bestows one final patronising kiss , And gropes his way , finding the stairs unlit ...
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... Tiresias . What Tiresias sees , in fact , is the substance of the poem . The whole passage from Ovid is of great anthropological interest : Cum Iunone iocos et maior vestra profecto est Quam , quae contingit maribus , ' dixisse ...
... Tiresias . What Tiresias sees , in fact , is the substance of the poem . The whole passage from Ovid is of great anthropological interest : Cum Iunone iocos et maior vestra profecto est Quam , quae contingit maribus , ' dixisse ...
Contents
JOHN SMITH | 3 |
Old Age 441 | 14 |
from Miscellaneous Poems | 33 |
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Abraham Davenport American angels Annabel Lee Anne Bradstreet beauty became bells beneath bird blue blue tail fly born breath bright called Casey Casey Jones cloud dark dead death door doth dream dust E. E. Cummings earth edition Eliot Emily Dickinson eyes Ezra Pound fall father feet fire flowers glory grass grave green hair hand Harvard hath hear heard heart heaven hills hymn land laugh leaves light lips live look Lord Mondamin morning never night o'er Poems appeared poet poetry published rose round Sandalphon shadow shine ship shore silent sing sleep snow song soul sound stand stars sweet T. S. Eliot tears tell thee things thou thought Tiresias trees Vachel Lindsay verse voice walk Wallace Stevens William Vaughn Moody wind wings woods word wrote