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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... past, is itself historical, conditioned by our present, everchanging circumstances. To know the world the way staid, old “He” does would be, in effect, to die. Rather than a real segment of history that we discover and describe, a ...
... past, is itself historical, conditioned by our present, everchanging circumstances. To know the world the way staid, old “He” does would be, in effect, to die. Rather than a real segment of history that we discover and describe, a ...
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... past through poetry or to explain poems historically. Whitman's Drum-Taps and Melville's Battle-Pieces are, by present standards, the very best poems to come out of the Civil War. They tell us far less about the conflict itself, however ...
... past through poetry or to explain poems historically. Whitman's Drum-Taps and Melville's Battle-Pieces are, by present standards, the very best poems to come out of the Civil War. They tell us far less about the conflict itself, however ...
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... past in the light of the present—something that no historian can escape. Whether one emphasizes the differences or the similarities between the past and the present, it is always the present that identifies the important data and ...
... past in the light of the present—something that no historian can escape. Whether one emphasizes the differences or the similarities between the past and the present, it is always the present that identifies the important data and ...
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... past. The inclusion of Sarah Piatt raises one or two additional points regarding the contents of this anthology. No effort has been made here to represent the great majority of poems written by Americans during the nineteenth century ...
... past. The inclusion of Sarah Piatt raises one or two additional points regarding the contents of this anthology. No effort has been made here to represent the great majority of poems written by Americans during the nineteenth century ...
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... past. The fact remains, however, that while poetry includes some verse, the two things are by no means synonymous; and there is no point in calling some versifier a poet in order to affirm his or her right to our attention if doing so ...
... past. The fact remains, however, that while poetry includes some verse, the two things are by no means synonymous; and there is no point in calling some versifier a poet in order to affirm his or her right to our attention if doing so ...
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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