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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... moved passages back and forth between his poems and prefaces without alteration. Comparing the jagged rhythms of Battle-Pieces and Clarel to the perfect blank-verse passages of Moby-Dick, more than one critic has opined that Melville ...
... moved passages back and forth between his poems and prefaces without alteration. Comparing the jagged rhythms of Battle-Pieces and Clarel to the perfect blank-verse passages of Moby-Dick, more than one critic has opined that Melville ...
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... moves likely to frighten the horses, others looked more seriously upon Romantic ideas of the poet as a seer and of ... moving, they, too, could become poets and, by going their individual ways, arrive at last at the same place: that ...
... moves likely to frighten the horses, others looked more seriously upon Romantic ideas of the poet as a seer and of ... moving, they, too, could become poets and, by going their individual ways, arrive at last at the same place: that ...
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... moving and learn to move with them, they expose us to a world of thought and sensation that is as unforgettable as it is breathtaking. No one who has heard her refer to the human body as “that pink stranger we call dust” will ever again ...
... moving and learn to move with them, they expose us to a world of thought and sensation that is as unforgettable as it is breathtaking. No one who has heard her refer to the human body as “that pink stranger we call dust” will ever again ...
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... Moving to London in 1791, he associated with such progressive thinkers as Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin and wrote defenses of the Revolution that won him honorary French citizenship. During the Reign of Terror, Barlow wrote his ...
... Moving to London in 1791, he associated with such progressive thinkers as Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin and wrote defenses of the Revolution that won him honorary French citizenship. During the Reign of Terror, Barlow wrote his ...
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... to have their intuitions affirmed . If these poets took care to stay within the reader's sight and avoid all moves likely to frighten the horses , others looked more seriously upon Romantic ideas of the poet as a seer and INTRODUCTION ...
... to have their intuitions affirmed . If these poets took care to stay within the reader's sight and avoid all moves likely to frighten the horses , others looked more seriously upon Romantic ideas of the poet as a seer and INTRODUCTION ...
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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