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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... stand almost alone among poets of their time in regarding poetry as a necessary medium of knowledge concerning matters of ultimate importance, rather than as a haven for religious sentiment in an increasingly secular world or as an ...
... stand almost alone among poets of their time in regarding poetry as a necessary medium of knowledge concerning matters of ultimate importance, rather than as a haven for religious sentiment in an increasingly secular world or as an ...
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... stand together and apart from their contemporaries on one historical promontory: both fashioned voices so distinct as to speak their own names, and theirs alone. Poetry here ceases to be a furnished room that new poets enter in order to ...
... stand together and apart from their contemporaries on one historical promontory: both fashioned voices so distinct as to speak their own names, and theirs alone. Poetry here ceases to be a furnished room that new poets enter in order to ...
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... stand; Then FREE ELECTION; then your FEDERAL BAND; This holy Triad should for ever shine The great compendium of all rights divine, Creed of all schools, whence youths by millions draw Their themes of right, their decalogues of law ...
... stand; Then FREE ELECTION; then your FEDERAL BAND; This holy Triad should for ever shine The great compendium of all rights divine, Creed of all schools, whence youths by millions draw Their themes of right, their decalogues of law ...
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... stand apart, When those whom thou hast trusted aim The death-blow at thy generous heart? Forth goes the battle-cry, and lo! Hosts rise in harness, shouting, No! And they who founded, in our land, The power that rules from sea to sea ...
... stand apart, When those whom thou hast trusted aim The death-blow at thy generous heart? Forth goes the battle-cry, and lo! Hosts rise in harness, shouting, No! And they who founded, in our land, The power that rules from sea to sea ...
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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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