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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... Land by Herman Melville, edited by Walter Bezanson. By permission of Hendricks House, Inc., Publishers, Putney, Vt. The Complete Poems of Frederick Goddard Tuckerman, edited by N. Scott Momaday. Copyright © 1965, 1993 by Oxford ...
... Land by Herman Melville, edited by Walter Bezanson. By permission of Hendricks House, Inc., Publishers, Putney, Vt. The Complete Poems of Frederick Goddard Tuckerman, edited by N. Scott Momaday. Copyright © 1965, 1993 by Oxford ...
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... Land” is very long, but it can be seen to pass through the metrical irregularities of Emerson, Poe's symbolisms, Whitman's free-verse evocations of the modern city, Dickinson's densely impacted style, Melville's self-sufficient images ...
... Land” is very long, but it can be seen to pass through the metrical irregularities of Emerson, Poe's symbolisms, Whitman's free-verse evocations of the modern city, Dickinson's densely impacted style, Melville's self-sufficient images ...
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... Land, by Herman Melville, ed. Walter Bezanson. New York: Hendricks House, 1960. The Complete Poems of Frederick Goddard Tuckerman, ed. N. Scott Momaday. New York: Oxford University Press, 1965. The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson, ed ...
... Land, by Herman Melville, ed. Walter Bezanson. New York: Hendricks House, 1960. The Complete Poems of Frederick Goddard Tuckerman, ed. N. Scott Momaday. New York: Oxford University Press, 1965. The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson, ed ...
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... 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 lurks no spot in that bright sun of thine? Hark! a dread voice, with heaven-astounding strain ...
... 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 lurks no spot in that bright sun of thine? Hark! a dread voice, with heaven-astounding strain ...
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... land, The bolt ill placed in thy forbearing hand.— Enslave my tribes! then boast their cantons free, Preach faith and justice, bend the sainted knee, Invite all men their liberty to share, Seek public peace, defy the assaults of war ...
... land, The bolt ill placed in thy forbearing hand.— Enslave my tribes! then boast their cantons free, Preach faith and justice, bend the sainted knee, Invite all men their liberty to share, Seek public peace, defy the assaults of war ...
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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