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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... and a Presidential Scholar at Dartmouth College, Class of 1997. For her senior honors thesis, she is planning an edition of the poems of Sarah Morgan Piatt. PENGUIN BOOKS Published by the Penguin Group Penguin Books USA PENGUIN CLASSICS.
... and a Presidential Scholar at Dartmouth College, Class of 1997. For her senior honors thesis, she is planning an edition of the poems of Sarah Morgan Piatt. PENGUIN BOOKS Published by the Penguin Group Penguin Books USA PENGUIN CLASSICS.
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... Poems of Henry David Thoreau, edited by Carl Bode, 1966. Collected Poems of Herman Melville, edited by Howard Vincent. By permission of Hendricks House, Inc., Publishers, Putney, Vt. Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land by ...
... Poems of Henry David Thoreau, edited by Carl Bode, 1966. Collected Poems of Herman Melville, edited by Howard Vincent. By permission of Hendricks House, Inc., Publishers, Putney, Vt. Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land by ...
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... also in the same century as Adrienne Rich. To call Melville a nineteenth-century poet, consequently, is to divorce him from both of these flanking coevals and to associate the poems he wrote in, Title Page Copyright Page Introduction.
... also in the same century as Adrienne Rich. To call Melville a nineteenth-century poet, consequently, is to divorce him from both of these flanking coevals and to associate the poems he wrote in, Title Page Copyright Page Introduction.
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... Poem. To Walt Whitman, versification got in the way of poetry. He moved passages back and forth between his poems and prefaces without alteration. Comparing the jagged rhythms of Battle-Pieces and Clarel to the perfect blank-verse ...
... Poem. To Walt Whitman, versification got in the way of poetry. He moved passages back and forth between his poems and prefaces without alteration. Comparing the jagged rhythms of Battle-Pieces and Clarel to the perfect blank-verse ...
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... poems they did or how those poems alone have managed to survive the passing of the circumstances that produced them. American literary historians have apparently resigned themselves to the incompatibility of history and poetry. In ...
... poems they did or how those poems alone have managed to survive the passing of the circumstances that produced them. American literary historians have apparently resigned themselves to the incompatibility of history and poetry. In ...
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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