American Heritage: An Anthology and Interpretive Survey of Our LiteratureLeon Howard Heath, 1955 - American literature |
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... poet possessed in such just proportions and to an equal degree . Hardly any of her contemporaries , except for a small number of relatives and friends , knew of her existence as a poet . A whimsical valentine , an impish comment upon ...
... poet possessed in such just proportions and to an equal degree . Hardly any of her contemporaries , except for a small number of relatives and friends , knew of her existence as a poet . A whimsical valentine , an impish comment upon ...
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... poet was genuinely akin to Walt Whitman . Lind- say would have agreed wholeheartedly with the concluding sentence of the original Pref- ace to Leaves of Grass : " The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affection- ately ...
... poet was genuinely akin to Walt Whitman . Lind- say would have agreed wholeheartedly with the concluding sentence of the original Pref- ace to Leaves of Grass : " The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affection- ately ...
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... poet only an interruption to his writing about an orderly land of the imagination , it was to Karl Shapiro a major event , doubtless the most important in his life up to the time of his induction . The youngest of the poets to be ...
... poet only an interruption to his writing about an orderly land of the imagination , it was to Karl Shapiro a major event , doubtless the most important in his life up to the time of his induction . The youngest of the poets to be ...
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The New England Brahmins | 3 |
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW | 9 |
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES | 29 |
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