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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... feeling of newly won linguistic authority that pervades Emerson's essay “The Poet” (1844) and Whitman's original preface to Leaves of Grass (1855) and would lead Matthew Arnold, in 1883, to rank Emerson with Wordsworth as one of the ...
... feeling of newly won linguistic authority that pervades Emerson's essay “The Poet” (1844) and Whitman's original preface to Leaves of Grass (1855) and would lead Matthew Arnold, in 1883, to rank Emerson with Wordsworth as one of the ...
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... . Among American writers, this new, poet-centered poetry took several forms. Bryant, Longfellow, Whittier, and Lowell owed their enormous popularity to their gift for making the poet deeply feel and eloquently express.
... . Among American writers, this new, poet-centered poetry took several forms. Bryant, Longfellow, Whittier, and Lowell owed their enormous popularity to their gift for making the poet deeply feel and eloquently express.
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Various William Spengemann. gift for making the poet deeply feel and eloquently express what his readers were already feeling, consciously or otherwise: nostalgia for the disappearing past, anxiety or optimism regarding the uncertain ...
Various William Spengemann. gift for making the poet deeply feel and eloquently express what his readers were already feeling, consciously or otherwise: nostalgia for the disappearing past, anxiety or optimism regarding the uncertain ...
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... feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off,” she said, “I know that is poetry.” The American past has come in for a good deal of retroactive scolding recently, on account of its mistreatment of the powerless and the ...
... feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off,” she said, “I know that is poetry.” The American past has come in for a good deal of retroactive scolding recently, on account of its mistreatment of the powerless and the ...
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... feel; Warm wild I sing; and, to her failings blind, Mislead myself, perhaps mislead mankind. Land that I love! is this the whole we owe? Thy pride to pamper, thy fair face to show; Dwells there noblemish where such glories shine? And ...
... feel; Warm wild I sing; and, to her failings blind, Mislead myself, perhaps mislead mankind. Land that I love! is this the whole we owe? Thy pride to pamper, thy fair face to show; Dwells there noblemish where such glories shine? And ...
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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