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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... thought of as the most American poets of their time, they differ from one another as much as they do from their contemporaries elsewhere in the English-speaking world. They all wrote as they did, no doubt, at least partly because they ...
... thought of as the most American poets of their time, they differ from one another as much as they do from their contemporaries elsewhere in the English-speaking world. They all wrote as they did, no doubt, at least partly because they ...
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... thought to have characterized American culture in the nineteenth century, The Columbia Literary History of the United States (1988) relies almost entirely on prose for its sources and illustrations. The discussion of nineteenthcentury ...
... thought to have characterized American culture in the nineteenth century, The Columbia Literary History of the United States (1988) relies almost entirely on prose for its sources and illustrations. The discussion of nineteenthcentury ...
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... thought, effort, or skill. She is no Emily Dickinson, but then neither is anyone else. Like Dickinson, however, she has the gift, indispensable to poetry, of making even the most commonplace themes and forms her very own, the most ...
... thought, effort, or skill. She is no Emily Dickinson, but then neither is anyone else. Like Dickinson, however, she has the gift, indispensable to poetry, of making even the most commonplace themes and forms her very own, the most ...
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... thought inappropriate to the larger designs of poetry. Whereas Tuckerman seems to speak solely to himself about his own griefs and religious doubts, seldom arriving at conclusions that might solace readers similarly afflicted ...
... thought inappropriate to the larger designs of poetry. Whereas Tuckerman seems to speak solely to himself about his own griefs and religious doubts, seldom arriving at conclusions that might solace readers similarly afflicted ...
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... altogether private matter, a mode of thinking, like music, painting, or dance, that records its own motions less for the reader's sake than to facilitate still further thought. This is not to suggest, by any means, that Dickinson's.
... altogether private matter, a mode of thinking, like music, painting, or dance, that records its own motions less for the reader's sake than to facilitate still further thought. This is not to suggest, by any means, that Dickinson's.
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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