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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... field. By the same token, we could know everything about the Civil War and about Whitman's and Melville's involvement in it and still not be able to explain how they came to write the poems they did or how those poems alone have managed ...
... field. By the same token, we could know everything about the Civil War and about Whitman's and Melville's involvement in it and still not be able to explain how they came to write the poems they did or how those poems alone have managed ...
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... fields of storm, Flings off the clouds that round his shoulders hung And breaks from clogs of ice his trembling tongue; While far thro space with rage and grief he glares, Heaves his hoar head and shakes the heaven he bears; —Son of my ...
... fields of storm, Flings off the clouds that round his shoulders hung And breaks from clogs of ice his trembling tongue; While far thro space with rage and grief he glares, Heaves his hoar head and shakes the heaven he bears; —Son of my ...
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... fields afar, Unseen, they follow in his flaming way: Many a bright lingerer, as the eve grows dim, Tells what a radiant troop arose and set with him. And thou dost see them rise, Star of the Pole! and thou dost see them set.
... fields afar, Unseen, they follow in his flaming way: Many a bright lingerer, as the eve grows dim, Tells what a radiant troop arose and set with him. And thou dost see them rise, Star of the Pole! and thou dost see them set.
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... field; the tall maize stood Dark in its summer growth, and shook its leaves, And bright the sunlight played on the young wood— For fifty years ago, the old men say, The Briton hewed their ancient groves away. I saw where fountains ...
... field; the tall maize stood Dark in its summer growth, and shook its leaves, And bright the sunlight played on the young wood— For fifty years ago, the old men say, The Briton hewed their ancient groves away. I saw where fountains ...
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Various William Spengemann. These are the Gardens of the Desert, these The unshorn fields, boundless and beautiful, And fresh as the young earth, ere man had sinned— The Prairies. I behold them for the first, And my heart swells, while ...
Various William Spengemann. These are the Gardens of the Desert, these The unshorn fields, boundless and beautiful, And fresh as the young earth, ere man had sinned— The Prairies. I behold them for the first, And my heart swells, while ...
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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