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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... never tired of saying, America is at once potentially the greatest poem and the threshold of the modern; to be modern, poetry must be American; and to be truly American, everyone must become a modern poet. Poetic, Modern, American: the ...
... never tired of saying, America is at once potentially the greatest poem and the threshold of the modern; to be modern, poetry must be American; and to be truly American, everyone must become a modern poet. Poetic, Modern, American: the ...
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... never mind that of their less able contemporaries, will wonder at the feelings of suffocation that would send the Modernists screaming for the exits in search of unbreathed air— only to find Whitman, Dickinson, and Melville there before ...
... never mind that of their less able contemporaries, will wonder at the feelings of suffocation that would send the Modernists screaming for the exits in search of unbreathed air— only to find Whitman, Dickinson, and Melville there before ...
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... never unconcerned, that this primal idiom might violate the rules of prosody or the expectations of his readers. For him, as for William Blake and Coleridge, poetry was a serious business, the most serious of all. Rather than recreation ...
... never unconcerned, that this primal idiom might violate the rules of prosody or the expectations of his readers. For him, as for William Blake and Coleridge, poetry was a serious business, the most serious of all. Rather than recreation ...
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... never finished. In 1804, Barlow returned to America for the first time since 1788, settling initially in Washington, then in Philadelphia, where he revised his epic and published it anew under the title of The Columbiad (1807). Four ...
... never finished. In 1804, Barlow returned to America for the first time since 1788, settling initially in Washington, then in Philadelphia, where he revised his epic and published it anew under the title of The Columbiad (1807). Four ...
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... never unconcerned , that this primal idiom might violate the rules of prosody or the expectations of his readers . For him , as for William Blake and Coleridge , poetry was a serious business , the most serious of all . Rather than ...
... never unconcerned , that this primal idiom might violate the rules of prosody or the expectations of his readers . For him , as for William Blake and Coleridge , poetry was a serious business , the most serious of all . Rather than ...
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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