American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century Vol. 2 (LOA #67): Melville to Stickney / American Indian Poetry / Folk Songs & SpiritualsLibrary of America, 1 set 1993 - 1050 pagine This second volume of The Library of America’s two-volume collection of nineteenth-century American poetry follows the evolution of American poetry from the monumental mid-century achievements of Herman Melville and Emily Dickinson to the modernist stirrings of Stephen Crane and Edwin Arlington Robinson. The cataclysm of the Civil War—reflected in fervent antislavery protests, in marching songs and poetic calls to arms, and in muted post-bellum expressions of grief and reconciliation—ushered in a period of accelerating change and widening regional perspectives. Here too are the pioneering African-American poets (Frances Harper, Albery Allson Whitman, Paul Laurence Dunbar); popular humorists (James Whitcomb Riley, Eugene Field); writers embodying America’s newfound cosmopolitanism (Edith Wharton, George Santayana); and extravagant self-mythologizing figures who could have existed nowhere else, like the actress Adah Isaacs Menken and the frontier poet Joaquin Miller. Parodies, dialect poems, song lyrics, and children’s verse evoke the liveliness of an era when poetry was accessible to all. Here are poems that played a crucial role in American public life, whether to arouse the national conscience (Edwin Markham’s “The Man with the Hoe”) or to memorialize the golden age of the national pastime (Ernest Lawrence Thayer’s “Casey at the Bat”). An entire section of this volume is devoted to American Indian poetry in nineteenth-century versions, making available—some for the first time since their initial publication—an astonishing range of translations and adaptations: Ojibwa healing rituals, the songs of the Ghost Dance religion, Zuni mythological narratives, chants from the Kwakiutl Winter Ceremonial. Also included is a generous selection from America’s rich heritage of anonymous folk songs, ballads, and hymns. Unprecedented in its textual authority, the anthology includes newly researched biographical sketches of each poet, a year-by-year chronology of poets and poetry from 1800 to 1900, and extensive notes. LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation’s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America’s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries. |
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HERMAN MELVILLE 18191891 | 1 |
HENRY HOWARD BROWNELL 18201872 | 87 |
FREDERICK GODDARD TUCKERMAN 18211873 | 100 |
How oft in schoolboydays from the schools | 108 |
MARIA WHITE LOWELL 18211853 | 117 |
THOMAS BUCHANAN READ 18221872 | 127 |
JAMES MATHEWES LEGARE 18231859 | 133 |
CHARLES GODFREY LELAND 18241903 | 146 |
Egotist | 434 |
To the Bartholdi Statue | 441 |
GEORGE WASHINGTON CABLE 18441925 | 447 |
EMMA LAZARUS 18491887 | 456 |
SARAH ORNE JEWETT 18491909 | 465 |
JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY 18491916 | 471 |
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX 18501919 | 479 |
ALBERY ALLSON WHITMAN 18511901 | 487 |
PHOEBE CARY 18241871 | 154 |
BAYARD TAYLOR 18251878 | 163 |
STEPHEN FOSTER 18261864 | 172 |
ROBERT LOWRY 18261899 | 176 |
JOHN ROLLIN RIDGE 18271867 | 183 |
JOHN TOWNSEND TROWBRIDGE 18271916 | 191 |
HENRY TIMROD 18281867 | 201 |
PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE 18301886 | 220 |
HELEN HUNT JACKSON 18301885 | 222 |
The nearest Dream recedesunrealized | 244 |
dreaded that first Robin so | 250 |
It would never be CommonmoreI said | 256 |
They put Us far apart | 262 |
started EarlyTook my Dog | 268 |
The Heart asks Pleasurefirst | 269 |
Painhas an Element of Blank | 283 |
On a Columnar Self | 292 |
There is a Zone whose even Years | 298 |
My Triumph lasted till the Drums | 304 |
BENJAMIN PAUL BLOOD 18321919 | 317 |
HENRY CLAY WORK 18321884 | 323 |
AUGUSTA COOPER BRISTOL 18351910 | 332 |
ADAH ISAACS MENKEN 1835?1868 | 335 |
SARAH MORGAN PIATT 18361919 | 349 |
FORCEYTHE WILLSON 18371867 | 362 |
JOAQUIN MILLER 18371913 | 369 |
ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN 18381886 | 377 |
JOHN HAY 18381905 | 381 |
JAMES RYDER RANDALL 18391908 | 390 |
EDWARD ROWLAND SILL 18411887 | 397 |
SIDNEY LANIER 18421881 | 403 |
AMBROSE BIERCE 18421914? | 433 |
EDWIN MARKHAM 18521940 | 496 |
In Death Valley | 498 |
JAMES A BLAND 18541911 | 515 |
KATHARINE LEE BATES 18591929 | 522 |
HARRIET MONROE 18601936 | 529 |
EDITH WHARTON 18621937 | 535 |
JOHN JAY CHAPMAN 18621933 | 543 |
STUART MERRILL 18631915 | 556 |
Verlaine | 565 |
GELETT BURGESS 18661951 | 573 |
EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON 18691935 | 586 |
STEPHEN CRANE 18711900 | 600 |
PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR 18721906 | 610 |
A Summers Night | 612 |
The Colored Soldiers | 619 |
Signs of the Times | 625 |
TRUMBULL STICKNEY 18741904 | 635 |
19THCENTURY VERSIONS OF AMERICAN INDIAN POETRY | 661 |
Minnetare Songs Hidatsa | 679 |
Songs and Chants Southern Paiute | 685 |
from Sacred Songs of the Konkau | 691 |
Chant from the Iroquois Book of Rites Onondaga | 697 |
from The Mountain Chant Navajo | 705 |
Pawnee WarSong | 711 |
Incantations of Modoc Conjurers | 718 |
A Rain Song of the Shuwi Chaiän Snake Society | 724 |
from The Hardening of the World and the First Settlement | 726 |
Songs of the Kwakiutl Indians | 735 |
Songs of Spirits Wintun | 741 |
Invocation to the Uwannami Zuni | 755 |
Chronology | 825 |
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