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Gathers over 600 poems, hymns, sonnets, and ballads by nineteenth-century American authors, including Edgar Allen Poe, Mark Twain, and Sarah Orne Jewett, and provides biographical profiles.
Provides more than twenty poems written by American poets, with brief introductory remarks.
In nineteenth-century America, poetry was, part of everyday life, as familiar as a hymn, a love song, a patriotic exhortation. American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century reveals the vigor and diversity...
“The editing is more than brilliant: It is nearly unimaginable how the Library of America team managed to do so much so well. . . . Every possible kind of...
The foremost practitioners of light verse “took delight not only in what they had to say but in their precise manner of saying it,” writes John Hollander in his introduction. “What makes it mean something is . . . the unique pleasure ...
This groundbreaking Library of America volume offers a fresh look at early American poetry, charting its evolution over a span of almost two centuries, from the first years of English...
Included in the anthology is newly researched biographical sketches of each poet, a year-by-year chronology of poets and poetry from 1800-1900, and extensive notes.
American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century. New York: Library of America, 1993. Homestead, Melissa. American Women Authors and Literary Property, 1822–1869. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Jackson, Virginia.
The first critical collection of its kind devoted solely to this subject, this Companion covers both well-known and lesser-known poets.
African - American Studies : Hallie Q. Brown Memorial Library and the Schomburg Collection , comps . The Index to Periodical Articles By and About Negroes ( 1950–72 ) ; About Blacks ( 1974-83 ) ; Index to Black Periodicals ( Boston ...