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Loading... American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century, volume two: Melville to Stickney, American Indian Poetry, Folk Songs and Spiritualsby Herman Melville (Editor), Emily Dickinson (Author), Stephen Crane (Author), Edwin Arlington Robinson (Author), Frederick Goddard Tuckerman (Author) — 2 more, Emma Lazarus (Author), Trumball Stickney (Author)Trumbull Stickney. 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"). |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)811.308Literature English (North America) American poetry Middle 19th century 1830–1861LC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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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").