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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... Earth but kindred near then could he find. 15 Who fancyes not his looks now at the Barr, His face like death, his heart with horror fraught, Nor Male-factor ever felt like warr, When deep dispair, with wish of life hath fought, Branded ...
... Earth but kindred near then could he find. 15 Who fancyes not his looks now at the Barr, His face like death, his heart with horror fraught, Nor Male-factor ever felt like warr, When deep dispair, with wish of life hath fought, Branded ...
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... earth (though old) stil clad in green, The stones and trees, insensible of time, Nor age nor wrinkle on their front are seen; If winter come, and greeness then do fade, A Spring returns, and they more youthfull made; But Man grows old ...
... earth (though old) stil clad in green, The stones and trees, insensible of time, Nor age nor wrinkle on their front are seen; If winter come, and greeness then do fade, A Spring returns, and they more youthfull made; But Man grows old ...
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... earth ev'n for heav'ns bower. But sad affliction comes & makes him see Here's neither honour, wealth, or safety; Only above is found all with security. 33 O Time the fatal wrack of mortal things, That draws oblivions curtains over kings ...
... earth ev'n for heav'ns bower. But sad affliction comes & makes him see Here's neither honour, wealth, or safety; Only above is found all with security. 33 O Time the fatal wrack of mortal things, That draws oblivions curtains over kings ...
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... Earth outweigh, Outmatch all mountains, nay the Chrystall Sky? Imbosom in't designs that shall Display And trace into the Boundless Deity? Yea hand a Pen whose moysture doth guild ore Eternall Glory with a glorious glore. If it its Pen ...
... Earth outweigh, Outmatch all mountains, nay the Chrystall Sky? Imbosom in't designs that shall Display And trace into the Boundless Deity? Yea hand a Pen whose moysture doth guild ore Eternall Glory with a glorious glore. If it its Pen ...
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... Earth once was Paradise of Heaven below Till inkefac'd sin had it with poyson stockt And Chast this Paradise away into Heav'ns upmost Loft, and it in Glory Lockt. But thou, sweet Lord, hast with thy golden Key Unlockt the Doore, and ...
... Earth once was Paradise of Heaven below Till inkefac'd sin had it with poyson stockt And Chast this Paradise away into Heav'ns upmost Loft, and it in Glory Lockt. But thou, sweet Lord, hast with thy golden Key Unlockt the Doore, and ...
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Three Centuries of American Poetry, 1620-1923 Allen Mandelbaum,Robert D. Richardson No preview available - 1999 |
Three Centuries of American Poetry: 1620-1923 Allen Mandelbaum,Robert Richardson No preview available - 1999 |
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