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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... gives the poet moral authority, Poe declared poetry a pure artifice, completely detached from truth, whether personal or communal, and dedicated entirely to the creation of beauty, which he associated with the melancholy recollection of ...
... gives the poet moral authority, Poe declared poetry a pure artifice, completely detached from truth, whether personal or communal, and dedicated entirely to the creation of beauty, which he associated with the melancholy recollection of ...
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... gives the poet moral authority , Poe declared poetry a pure artifice , completely detached from truth , whether personal or commu- nal , and dedicated entirely to the creation of beauty , which he associated with the melancholy ...
... gives the poet moral authority , Poe declared poetry a pure artifice , completely detached from truth , whether personal or commu- nal , and dedicated entirely to the creation of beauty , which he associated with the melancholy ...
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... Gives each effect its own indubious cause, Divides her moral from her physic laws, Shows where the virtues find their nurturing food, And men their motives to be just and good. You scorn the Titan's threat; nor shall I strain The powers ...
... Gives each effect its own indubious cause, Divides her moral from her physic laws, Shows where the virtues find their nurturing food, And men their motives to be just and good. You scorn the Titan's threat; nor shall I strain The powers ...
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... give earth repose And save your sons from slavery, wars and woes. Based on its rock of right your empire lies, On walls of wisdom let the fabric rise; Preserve your principles, their force unfold, Let nations prove them and let kings ...
... give earth repose And save your sons from slavery, wars and woes. Based on its rock of right your empire lies, On walls of wisdom let the fabric rise; Preserve your principles, their force unfold, Let nations prove them and let kings ...
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... give up the law for a career in editing, first with a magazine and, in 1829, at the New York Evening Post, where he would remain for nearly fifty years. Editorial duties conspired with the responsibilities of increasing ownership of the ...
... give up the law for a career in editing, first with a magazine and, in 1829, at the New York Evening Post, where he would remain for nearly fifty years. Editorial duties conspired with the responsibilities of increasing ownership of the ...
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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