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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... poetry in the same century as Alexander Pope but 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 ...
... poetry in the same century as Alexander Pope but 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 ...
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... Poetry in this sense is verse. The word, however, is also commonly used to designate writing of especial eloquence, suggestiveness, emotional effect, and the like. In that sense, poetry and verse may be very different things. To William ...
... Poetry in this sense is verse. The word, however, is also commonly used to designate writing of especial eloquence, suggestiveness, emotional effect, and the like. In that sense, poetry and verse may be very different things. To William ...
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... poetry” illustrates a more general problem: an apparently fundamental conflict between history and poetry—a conflict that frustrates any effort to recover the past through poetry or to explain poems historically. Whitman's Drum-Taps and ...
... poetry” illustrates a more general problem: an apparently fundamental conflict between history and poetry—a conflict that frustrates any effort to recover the past through poetry or to explain poems historically. Whitman's Drum-Taps and ...
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... poetry, leading Americans in particular to review the poetry of their earlier compatriots and to find there, rather than in England, the nineteenth-century origins of twentieth-century poetry in English. As a result, current anthologies ...
... poetry, leading Americans in particular to review the poetry of their earlier compatriots and to find there, rather than in England, the nineteenth-century origins of twentieth-century poetry in English. As a result, current anthologies ...
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... Poet” (1844) and Whitman's original preface to Leaves of Grass (1855) and would lead Matthew Arnold, in 1883, to rank Emerson with Wordsworth as one of the century's two most important writers of English ... poetry compiled, as this one.
... Poet” (1844) and Whitman's original preface to Leaves of Grass (1855) and would lead Matthew Arnold, in 1883, to rank Emerson with Wordsworth as one of the century's two most important writers of English ... poetry compiled, as this one.
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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