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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... songs, such comparisons are impossible, since no written texts exist to validate their English versions or to have produced different translations of any one piece. Although a potentially fascinating and important subject, poetic as ...
... songs, such comparisons are impossible, since no written texts exist to validate their English versions or to have produced different translations of any one piece. Although a potentially fascinating and important subject, poetic as ...
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... songs, popular ditties, patriotic effusions, and verse epistles; or the equally wide variety of Americans who wrote it: shopkeepers, housewives, social reformers, immigrants, cowboys, freed slaves; or the countless places it was ...
... songs, popular ditties, patriotic effusions, and verse epistles; or the equally wide variety of Americans who wrote it: shopkeepers, housewives, social reformers, immigrants, cowboys, freed slaves; or the countless places it was ...
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... Songs. Detroit: Sidney Witherbee, 1898. Steinmetz, Lee (ed.). The Poetry of the American Civil War. East Lan sing: Michigan State University Press, 1960. Cronyn, George William (ed.). American Indian Poetry: An Anthology of Songs and ...
... Songs. Detroit: Sidney Witherbee, 1898. Steinmetz, Lee (ed.). The Poetry of the American Civil War. East Lan sing: Michigan State University Press, 1960. Cronyn, George William (ed.). American Indian Poetry: An Anthology of Songs and ...
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... song grew shriller with delight. At length thy pinions fluttered in Broadway— Ah, there were fairy steps, and white necks kissed By wanton airs, and eyes whose killing ray Shone through the snowy veils like stars through mist; And fresh ...
... song grew shriller with delight. At length thy pinions fluttered in Broadway— Ah, there were fairy steps, and white necks kissed By wanton airs, and eyes whose killing ray Shone through the snowy veils like stars through mist; And fresh ...
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... Song and Famine, dwell. Try some plump alderman, and suck the blood Enriched by generous wine and costly meat; On well-filled skins, sleek as thy native mud, Fix thy light pump and press thy freckled feet. Go to the men for whom, in ...
... Song and Famine, dwell. Try some plump alderman, and suck the blood Enriched by generous wine and costly meat; On well-filled skins, sleek as thy native mud, Fix thy light pump and press thy freckled feet. Go to the men for whom, 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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