Nineteenth-Century American PoetryWhitman, Dickinson, and Melville occupy the center of this anthology of nearly three hundred poems, spanning the course of the century, from Joel Barlow to Edwin Arlington Robinson, by way of Bryant, Emerson, Longfellow, Whittier, Poe, Holmes, Jones Very, Thoreau, Lowell, and Lanier. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. |
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... American poetry is a distinct subcategory of poetry as a whole, a readily identifiable set of poems ready for collection and study. Asked to define American poetry, most people would say, “Poetry written by Americans.” That answer ...
... American poetry is a distinct subcategory of poetry as a whole, a readily identifiable set of poems ready for collection and study. Asked to define American poetry, most people would say, “Poetry written by Americans.” That answer ...
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... American” ends up denoting little more than whatever certain American poets happen, for whatever reasons, to have done. The difficulty of connecting the words “American” and “poetry” illustrates a more general problem: an apparently ...
... American” ends up denoting little more than whatever certain American poets happen, for whatever reasons, to have done. The difficulty of connecting the words “American” and “poetry” illustrates a more general problem: an apparently ...
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... American poets and their relative importance in the development of English poetry, leading Americans in particular to review the poetry of their earlier compatriots and to find there, rather than in England, the nineteenth-century ...
... American poets and their relative importance in the development of English poetry, leading Americans in particular to review the poetry of their earlier compatriots and to find there, rather than in England, the nineteenth-century ...
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... America and a small cadre of American poets squarely at the center of its explanations regarding the emergence of the present from the past, this history is American. As Whitman never tired of saying, America is at once potentially the ...
... America and a small cadre of American poets squarely at the center of its explanations regarding the emergence of the present from the past, this history is American. As Whitman never tired of saying, America is at once potentially the ...
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Various William Spengemann. An anthology of nineteenth-century American poetry compiled, as this one is, to suggest what nineteenth-century America contributed to the history of poetry, rather than what poetry may contribute to a history ...
Various William Spengemann. An anthology of nineteenth-century American poetry compiled, as this one is, to suggest what nineteenth-century America contributed to the history of poetry, rather than what poetry may contribute to a history ...
Contents
Section 1 | 42 |
Section 2 | 106 |
Section 3 | 107 |
Section 4 | 108 |
Section 5 | 123 |
Section 6 | 128 |
Section 7 | 129 |
Section 8 | 131 |
Section 17 | 297 |
Section 18 | 327 |
Section 19 | 328 |
Section 20 | 332 |
Section 21 | 334 |
Section 22 | 349 |
Section 23 | 361 |
Section 24 | 364 |
Section 9 | 132 |
Section 10 | 149 |
Section 11 | 168 |
Section 12 | 172 |
Section 13 | 173 |
Section 14 | 175 |
Section 15 | 177 |
Section 16 | 251 |
Section 25 | 368 |
Section 26 | 409 |
Section 27 | 410 |
Section 28 | 415 |
Section 29 | 426 |
Section 30 | 430 |
Section 31 | 431 |
Section 32 | 435 |
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