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

1099 pages first pub 1996 (editions)

classics poetry challenging reflective medium-paced
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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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