Poetry of the American Renaissance: A Diverse Anthology from the Romantic PeriodPaul Kane This anthology, the most comprehensive available in a single volume, brings together all of the major poets of the American Renaissance along with many lesser-known poets now being rediscovered. A critical introduction situated the poetry in its historical context, informative headnotes introduce each poet, and notes to the poems provide helpful explanations to unusual words and references. This anthology, for the first time, presents the brilliant poetic legacy of the American Renaissance in a convenient and accessible format. |
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Page 44
... sweet flowret , mildewed in my arms , Withered to hideousness as foul as sin , Grew fearful hags ; and then , with potent charm " Of muttered word and harmful drug , did learn To force me to their will . Down the damp grave , Loathing I ...
... sweet flowret , mildewed in my arms , Withered to hideousness as foul as sin , Grew fearful hags ; and then , with potent charm " Of muttered word and harmful drug , did learn To force me to their will . Down the damp grave , Loathing I ...
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... sweet old song , It flutters and murmurs still : " A boy's will is the wind's will , And the thoughts of youth are long , long thoughts . " I remember the gleams and glooms that dart Across the schoolboy's brain ; The song and the ...
... sweet old song , It flutters and murmurs still : " A boy's will is the wind's will , And the thoughts of youth are long , long thoughts . " I remember the gleams and glooms that dart Across the schoolboy's brain ; The song and the ...
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... sweet pity with her go ! The outward wayward life we see , The hidden springs we may not know . Nor is it given us to discern What threads the fatal sisters spun , Through what ancestral years has run The sorrow with the woman born ...
... sweet pity with her go ! The outward wayward life we see , The hidden springs we may not know . Nor is it given us to discern What threads the fatal sisters spun , Through what ancestral years has run The sorrow with the woman born ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION BY PAUL KANE | 23 |
WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT 17941878 | 30 |
MARIA GOWEN BROOKS 1794?1845 | 39 |
Copyright | |
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Poetry of the American Renaissance: A Diverse Anthology From The Romantic Period Various No preview available - 2012 |
Poetry of the American Renaissance: A Diverse Anthology from the Romantic Period Paul Kane No preview available - 1995 |
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American American Renaissance angels beautiful beneath bird blood bloom born breath Brooks child clouds dark dead death Dickinson door doth dreams earth Edgar Allan Poe Emerson Emily Dickinson eyes father feet Fireside Poets flowers Frederick Goddard Tuckerman gaze GEORGE MOSES HORTON grass grave gray Greek mythology hand Harvard hath Hawthorne hear heard heart Heaven Henry David Thoreau HENRY HOWARD BROWNELL hills hour land leaves light living Longfellow look MARIA GOWEN BROOKS Melville Menken moon mother never night o'er ocean once pass Phoebe Cary poems poet poetry published river shadows shore sing sleep song soul sound spirit stars stood sweet tears thee thine Thoreau thou thought Timrod transcendentalist verse voice waves Whitman Whittier wild William Ellery Channing wind woman women wood word writing Zóphiël
References to this book
Sight & Sound: Naturbilder in der englischen und amerikanischen Romantik Frank Mehring Limited preview - 2001 |