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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... writing that differs from prose by virtue of being broken into lines. Poetry in this sense is verse. The word, however, is also commonly used to designate writing of especial eloquence, suggestiveness, emotional effect, and the like. In ...
... writing that differs from prose by virtue of being broken into lines. Poetry in this sense is verse. The word, however, is also commonly used to designate writing of especial eloquence, suggestiveness, emotional effect, and the like. In ...
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... writing more than did all other factors put together, it takes so many different forms in their work that the word “American” ends up denoting little more than whatever certain American poets happen, for whatever reasons, to have done ...
... writing more than did all other factors put together, it takes so many different forms in their work that the word “American” ends up denoting little more than whatever certain American poets happen, for whatever reasons, to have done ...
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... writers chronologically instead of dividing them by nationality, include more Americans than Britons, and begin their historical surveys with Whitman and Dickinson. This revision of America's perceived role in the evolution of English ...
... writers chronologically instead of dividing them by nationality, include more Americans than Britons, and begin their historical surveys with Whitman and Dickinson. This revision of America's perceived role in the evolution of English ...
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... writers of English. Like all historical constructions, this one necessarily views the past in the light of the present—something that no historian can escape. Whether one emphasizes the differences or the similarities between the past ...
... writers of English. Like all historical constructions, this one necessarily views the past in the light of the present—something that no historian can escape. Whether one emphasizes the differences or the similarities between the past ...
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... historical situation than were those of, say, Oliver Wendell Holmes by his. At the same time, we can see something that neither he nor the Modernists who rejected him could. To Holmes, his way of writing poetry was the only.
... historical situation than were those of, say, Oliver Wendell Holmes by his. At the same time, we can see something that neither he nor the Modernists who rejected him could. To Holmes, his way of writing poetry was the only.
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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