Nineteenth-Century American Poetry

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Penguin, Oct 1, 1996 - Poetry - 496 pages
Whitman, 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.

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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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William C. Spengemann is the Hale Professor in Arts and Sciences and Professor of English Emeritus at Dartmouth College. He edited the Penguin Classics edition of Nineteenth-Century American Poetry.

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