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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... Land our Ship was bound; Where we arriv'd in dreadful Pain, Shock'd by the Terrors of the Main; . . . . These Sot-weed Planters crowd the Shoar, In Hew as tawny as a Moor; Figures, so strange, no God design'd To be a Part of Humane Kind ...
... Land our Ship was bound; Where we arriv'd in dreadful Pain, Shock'd by the Terrors of the Main; . . . . These Sot-weed Planters crowd the Shoar, In Hew as tawny as a Moor; Figures, so strange, no God design'd To be a Part of Humane Kind ...
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... land of slavery, He was born free. Tho' he lived in a land of liberty, He lived a slave. Till by his honest, Tho' stolen, labors, He acquired the source of slavery, Which gave him his freedom; Tho' not long before Death, the grand ...
... land of slavery, He was born free. Tho' he lived in a land of liberty, He lived a slave. Till by his honest, Tho' stolen, labors, He acquired the source of slavery, Which gave him his freedom; Tho' not long before Death, the grand ...
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... land, We leave astern, and lose Its sinking cliffs and lessening sands, While Zephyr gently blows. . . . . When eastward, clear of Newfoundland, We stem the frozen pole. We see the icy islands stand, The northern billows roll. . . . . A ...
... land, We leave astern, and lose Its sinking cliffs and lessening sands, While Zephyr gently blows. . . . . When eastward, clear of Newfoundland, We stem the frozen pole. We see the icy islands stand, The northern billows roll. . . . . A ...
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... land of woe, And many a chapter from the scriptures read. 132 What is this Death, ye deep read sophists, say?— Death is no more than one unceasing change; New forms arise, while other forms decay, Yet all is Life throughout creation's ...
... land of woe, And many a chapter from the scriptures read. 132 What is this Death, ye deep read sophists, say?— Death is no more than one unceasing change; New forms arise, while other forms decay, Yet all is Life throughout creation's ...
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... land of errors, and Egyptian gloom: Father of mercy, 'twas thy gracious hand Brought me in safety from those dark abodes. Students, to you 'tis giv'n to scan the heights Above, to traverse the ethereal space, And mark the systems of ...
... land of errors, and Egyptian gloom: Father of mercy, 'twas thy gracious hand Brought me in safety from those dark abodes. Students, to you 'tis giv'n to scan the heights Above, to traverse the ethereal space, And mark the systems of ...
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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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