Nineteenth-century American Poetry

Compiled to suggest what nineteenth-century America contributed to the history of poetry, rather than what poetry may contribute to a history of nineteenth-century America, this volume emphasizes those poets who have survived the Modernist revolution over those left behind. And so it is Whitman, Dickinson, and Melville who occupy the center of this anthology; these are the poets in whose ability to speak directly to our ears modern poetry has recognized its forebears.

But only when these poetic innovators are read alongside the recognized giants of their day can we begin to see how truly extraordinary they are, and why they remained undervalued, unread, or altogether unknown in their own time. William C. Spengemann and Jessica F. Roberts have gathered 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, Lanier, and the largely forgotten Frederick Goddard Tuckerman and Sarah Morgan Piatt.

ISBN	0140435875	DEWEY edition	DC21
ISBN13	9780140435870 (What's this?)	Pages	496
Publisher	Penguin Books Ltd	Volumes	1
Imprint	Penguin Books Ltd	Weight (grammes)	340
Format	Paperback	Published in	London
Publication date	27 Mar 1997	Series title	Penguin Classics S.
Non-book description	xxxvii, 447 p. ;	Height (mm)	198
Writer of introduction	William C. Spengemann	Width (mm)	128
Library of Congress	PS607.N56	Spine width (mm)	21
DEWEY	811.308	Academic level	General

		Introduction
		Suggestions for Further Reading
		A Note on the Texts
		Joel Barlow (1754-1812)		1
		from The Columbiad: Book the Eighth		2
		William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878)		9
		Thanatopsis		10
		To a Waterfowl		12
		Mutation		13
		Hymn to the North Star		14
		To a Mosquito		15
		A Meditation on Rhode Island Coal		17
		The Prairies		20
		The Crowded Street		23
		Not Yet		25
		The Poet		26
		The Death of Lincoln		28
		Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)		29
		Each and All		30
		The Humble-Bee		32
		The Snow-Storm		34
		Grace		34
		Blight		35
		Motto to "The Poet"		36
		The World-Soul		37
		Mithridates		40
		Hamatreya		41
		Ode, Inscribed to W. H. Channing		43
		Merlin I		46
		Motto to "Nature"		48
		Days		48
		The Chartist's Complaint		49
		Two Rivers		49
		More...

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