Selections from American Poetry
Selections from American Poetry

Author: Margaret Sprague Carhart

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Published: 2015-06-29

Total Pages: 402

ISBN-13: 9781330482230

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Excerpt from Selections From American Poetry: With Special Reference to Poe, Longfellow, Lowell, and Whittier If we define poetry as the heart of man expressed in beautiful language, we shall not say that we have no national poetry. True, America has produced no Shakespeare and no Milton, but we have an inheritance in all English literature; and many poets in America have followed in the footsteps of their literary British forefathers. Puritan life was severe. It was warfare, and manual labor of a most exhausting type, and loneliness, and devotion to a strict sense of duty. It was a life in which pleasure was given the least place and duty the greatest. Our Puritan ancestors thought music and poetry dangerous, if not actually sinful, because they made men think of this world rather than of heaven. When Anne Bradstreet wrote our first known American poems, she was expressing English thought; "The tenth muse" was not animated by the life around her, but was living in a dream of the land she had left behind; her poems are faint echoes of the poetry of England. After time had identified her with life in the new world, she wrote "Contemplations," in which her English nightingales are changed to crickets and her English gilliflowers to American blackberry vines. The truly representative poetry of colonial times is Michael Wigglesworth's "Day of Doom." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Selections from American Poetry: With Special Reference to Poe, Longfellow, Lowell and Whittier
Selections from American Poetry: With Special Reference to Poe, Longfellow, Lowell and Whittier

Author: Margaret Sprague Carhart

Publisher: Palala Press

Published: 2018-02-16

Total Pages: 416

ISBN-13: 9781377649948

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Selections From American Poetry
Selections From American Poetry

Author: Frederick Houk Law

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2016-09-13

Total Pages: 138

ISBN-13: 9781333574789

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Excerpt from Selections From American Poetry: With Special Attention to Longfellow, Whittier, Poe and Lowell The purpose of this text is to present material for the present college entrance requirement for reading Selec tions from American Poets, with special attention to Long fellow, Whittier, Poe, and Lowell. Its further purpose is to present poems so carefully chosen with regard to points of contact with adolescent life that they will give imme diate pleasure and stimulate a desire for further reading along the best lines of interest. Furthermore, the poems have been chosen With regard to high literary values and far-reaching ethical importance. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.