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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... come in other packages: reigns, ages, eras, millennia, and the like. The “Nineteenth Century,” in other words, is itself a nineteenth-century idea; and like all timely notions, this one has changed over time. The nineteenth century is ...
... come in other packages: reigns, ages, eras, millennia, and the like. The “Nineteenth Century,” in other words, is itself a nineteenth-century idea; and like all timely notions, this one has changed over time. The nineteenth century is ...
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... come out of the Civil War. They tell us far less about the conflict itself, however, than do the doggerel verses preserved in the letters and journals written by soldiers in the field. By the same token, we could know everything about ...
... come out of the Civil War. They tell us far less about the conflict itself, however, than do the doggerel verses preserved in the letters and journals written by soldiers in the field. By the same token, we could know everything about ...
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... come to seem more and more American, first as scholars like John Livingstone Lowes unearthed the devotion of the young Wordsworth and Coleridge to narratives of New-World exploration, and more recently as literary historians have begun ...
... come to seem more and more American, first as scholars like John Livingstone Lowes unearthed the devotion of the young Wordsworth and Coleridge to narratives of New-World exploration, and more recently as literary historians have begun ...
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... comes closest to T. S. Eliot's ideal of poetry as an escape from personality to selfpossession by way of ... come to do all that Robert Frost said it can do: provide the writer and the reader “a momentary stay against confusion.” From ...
... comes closest to T. S. Eliot's ideal of poetry as an escape from personality to selfpossession by way of ... come to do all that Robert Frost said it can do: provide the writer and the reader “a momentary stay against confusion.” From ...
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... come to Whitman , the debate between relative publicity and privacy takes a peculiar turn . Whereas the Fireside Poets shunned the personal except as it conformed to general experience , and Dickin- son shunned every form of publicity ...
... come to Whitman , the debate between relative publicity and privacy takes a peculiar turn . Whereas the Fireside Poets shunned the personal except as it conformed to general experience , and Dickin- son shunned every form of publicity ...
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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