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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... seems poetry now, or that which seemed poetry at the time but, owing to changes in the meaning of the word, no longer seems so? The third assumption underlying the title of this volume is that American poetry is a distinct subcategory ...
... seems poetry now, or that which seemed poetry at the time but, owing to changes in the meaning of the word, no longer seems so? The third assumption underlying the title of this volume is that American poetry is a distinct subcategory ...
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... seem more and more American, first as scholars like John Livingstone Lowes unearthed the devotion of the young Wordsworth and Coleridge to narratives of New-World exploration, and more recently as literary historians have begun to think ...
... seem more and more American, first as scholars like John Livingstone Lowes unearthed the devotion of the young Wordsworth and Coleridge to narratives of New-World exploration, and more recently as literary historians have begun to think ...
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... seem poems (although, perhaps, poems of a very different sort) while others seem trapped in the past and are hence useful only as sources for a history of vanished poetic tastes—in this respect, our history is also poetic. And, insofar ...
... seem poems (although, perhaps, poems of a very different sort) while others seem trapped in the past and are hence useful only as sources for a history of vanished poetic tastes—in this respect, our history is also poetic. And, insofar ...
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... seem quite conventional, even natural, the way Hemingway's prose and Marlon Brando's acting do, now that their once revolutionary styles have become virtual commonplaces. Only when we read these poetic innovators alongside the ...
... seem quite conventional, even natural, the way Hemingway's prose and Marlon Brando's acting do, now that their once revolutionary styles have become virtual commonplaces. Only when we read these poetic innovators alongside the ...
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... seems, by virtue of their willful eccentricities. Although concentrating on nineteenth-century poets, the collection includes part of a late poem by Joel Barlow, who died in 1812, that looks back to the styles and forms of the previous ...
... seems, by virtue of their willful eccentricities. Although concentrating on nineteenth-century poets, the collection includes part of a late poem by Joel Barlow, who died in 1812, that looks back to the styles and forms of the previous ...
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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