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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... human action, the only one at all capable of plotting the course for a mind adrift in a sea of change, with no fixed points on earth or in the heavens by which to steer. The sonnets of Frederick Goddard Tuckerman approach a degree of ...
... human action, the only one at all capable of plotting the course for a mind adrift in a sea of change, with no fixed points on earth or in the heavens by which to steer. The sonnets of Frederick Goddard Tuckerman approach a degree of ...
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... human body as “that pink stranger we call dust” will ever again contemplate the image in the bathroom mirror without a gasp. The point is that, in reading her poems, we enter a mind that is utterly unique, if not in its concerns with ...
... human body as “that pink stranger we call dust” will ever again contemplate the image in the bathroom mirror without a gasp. The point is that, in reading her poems, we enter a mind that is utterly unique, if not in its concerns with ...
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... human being and the sea or a wood). All together, these assumed masks, perhaps mutually contradictory but equally sincere, enable Melville to dramatize his conflicted convictions, his ambivalences, his abiding sense of unresolvable ...
... human being and the sea or a wood). All together, these assumed masks, perhaps mutually contradictory but equally sincere, enable Melville to dramatize his conflicted convictions, his ambivalences, his abiding sense of unresolvable ...
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... human history that have produced more poetry than nineteenth-century America did. It produced its share, however, including some that meets Emily Dickinson's acid test for the genuine article: “If I feel physically as if the top of my ...
... human history that have produced more poetry than nineteenth-century America did. It produced its share, however, including some that meets Emily Dickinson's acid test for the genuine article: “If I feel physically as if the top of my ...
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... human utterance, calling upon all the resources of the language to grasp and express things otherwise unsayable. That is why every culture has produced it and why it goes on being written in an age preoccupied with technology, politics ...
... human utterance, calling upon all the resources of the language to grasp and express things otherwise unsayable. That is why every culture has produced it and why it goes on being written in an age preoccupied with technology, politics ...
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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