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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... 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 Cullen Bryant, poetry ...
... 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 Cullen Bryant, poetry ...
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... verses preserved in the letters and journals written by soldiers in the field. By the same token, we could know ... verse alone supplies the documentation. Prose, it appears, will reflect or reveal a history of something else—of ...
... verses preserved in the letters and journals written by soldiers in the field. By the same token, we could know ... verse alone supplies the documentation. Prose, it appears, will reflect or reveal a history of something else—of ...
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... verse of these poets, never mind that of their less able contemporaries, will wonder at the feelings of suffocation that would send the Modernists screaming for the exits in search of unbreathed air— only to find Whitman, Dickinson, and ...
... verse of these poets, never mind that of their less able contemporaries, will wonder at the feelings of suffocation that would send the Modernists screaming for the exits in search of unbreathed air— only to find Whitman, Dickinson, and ...
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... verse generally lacks what has always been considered the essence of poetry, that aura of mystery that surrounds poems like Emerson's “Days,” Poe's “Eldorado,” Whitman's “Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking,” and Melville's “Pebbles ...
... verse generally lacks what has always been considered the essence of poetry, that aura of mystery that surrounds poems like Emerson's “Days,” Poe's “Eldorado,” Whitman's “Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking,” and Melville's “Pebbles ...
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... verse, Sarah Piatt had something of a following in her day, largely, it seems, among women who found in her poems agreeable renditions of familiar domestic themes. This reputation has allowed twentieth-century literary historians either ...
... verse, Sarah Piatt had something of a following in her day, largely, it seems, among women who found in her poems agreeable renditions of familiar domestic themes. This reputation has allowed twentieth-century literary historians either ...
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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