American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century, Vol. 1: Freneau to Whitman by Carlos Wilcox, Charles Timothy Brooks, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Henry David Thoreau, Thomas Cole, William Gilmore Simms, James Gates Percival, George Moses Horton, Epes W. Sargent, Richard Henry Dana, Francis Scott Key, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Philip Pendleton Cooke, Nathaniel Parker Willis, Joel Barlow, J.G. Holland, John Neal, Margaret Fuller, Richard Henry Wilde, Daniel Decatur Emmett, Clement C. Moore, John Pierpont, William Ellery Channing, Thomas Dunn English, William Wetmore Story, Christopher Pearse Cranch, Josiah D. Canning, John Greenleaf Whittier, Sarah Helen Whitman, James Kirke Paulding, George Pope Morris, Edmund Hamilton Sears, Joseph Rodman Drake, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Fitz-Greene Halleck, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Lydia Maria Child, Cornelius Mathews, Edgar Allan Poe, Thomas Holley Chivers, James Russell Lowell, Samuel Woodworth, Walt Whitman, Abraham Lincoln, Washington Allston, John Hollander, L.H. Sigourney, Amos Bronson Alcott, Maria Gowen Brooks, Manoah Bodman, William Cullen Bryant, Edward Coote Pinkney, Philip Freneau, Jones Very, John Howard Payne, Samuel Henry Dickson, Fanny Kemble, Julia Ward Howe, John Quincy Adams

American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century, Vol. 1: Freneau to Whitman

Carlos Wilcox, Charles Timothy Brooks, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Henry David Thoreau, Thomas Cole, William Gilmore Simms, James Gates Percival, George Moses Horton, Epes W. Sargent, Richard Henry Dana, Francis Scott Key, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Philip Pendleton Cooke, Nathaniel Parker Willis, Joel Barlow, J.G. Holland, John Neal, Margaret Fuller, Richard Henry Wilde, Daniel Decatur Emmett, Clement C. Moore, John Pierpont, William Ellery Channing, Thomas Dunn English, William Wetmore Story, Christopher Pearse Cranch, Josiah D. Canning, John Greenleaf Whittier, Sarah Helen Whitman, James Kirke Paulding, George Pope Morris, Edmund Hamilton Sears, Joseph Rodman Drake, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Fitz-Greene Halleck, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Lydia Maria Child, Cornelius Mathews, Edgar Allan Poe, Thomas Holley Chivers, James Russell Lowell, Samuel Woodworth, Walt Whitman, Abraham Lincoln, Washington Allston, John Hollander, L.H. Sigourney, Amos Bronson Alcott, Maria Gowen Brooks, Manoah Bodman, William Cullen Bryant, Edward Coote Pinkney, Philip Freneau, Jones Very, John Howard Payne, Samuel Henry Dickson, Fanny Kemble, Julia Ward Howe, John Quincy Adams

1099 pages • first pub 1996 (editions)

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In nineteenth-century America, poetry was part of everyday life, as familiar as a hymn, a love song, a patriotic exhortation. The two volumes of The Library of America’s American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century reveal the vigor and diversity of a t...

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