The New Anthology of American Poetry: Traditions and Revolutions, Beginnings to 1900Steven Gould Axelrod, Camille Roman, Thomas Travisano Rutgers University Press, 2003 - 736 pages 2003 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Volume I begins with a generous selection of Native American materials, then spans the years from the establishment of the American colonies to about 1900, a world on the brink of World War I and the modern era. Part One focuses on poetry from the very beginnings through the end of the eighteenth century. The expansion and development of a newly forged nation engendered new kinds of poetry. Part Two includes works from the early nineteenth century through the time of the Civil War. The poems in Part Three reflect the many issues affecting a nation undergoing tumultuous change: the Civil War, immigration, urbanization, industrialization, and cultural diversification. Such well-recognized names as Anne Bradstreet, Edward Taylor, Phillis Wheatley, Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, and Stephen Crane appear in this anthology alongside such less frequently anthologized poets as George Horton, Sarah Helen Whitman, Elizabeth Oakes-Smith, Frances Harper, Rose Terry Cooke, Helen Hunt Jackson, Adah Menken, Sarah Piatt, Ina Coolbrith, Emma Lazarus, Albery Whitman, Owl Woman (Juana Manwell) Sadakichi Hartmann, Ernest Fenollosa, James Weldon Johnson, Paul Laurence Dunbar, and--virtually unknown as a poet--Abraham Lincoln. It also includes poems and songs reflecting the experiences of a variety of racial and ethnic groups. |
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... hold of me fast. Carrying their day count, I came back to my house. Saying, ''Let itbe now,'' And carrying the prayer plumes which I had prepared, Yonder to the south With prayers, I made my road go forth. To the place ever since the ...
... hold of me. Presenting me to all the directions, he made me sit down. When I had sat down, My father Took his grandson, Reed youth. Within his body, He bored a hole going through him. Four times drawing toward him his bag of native ...
... hold. 10. When the impersonator of Sayatasha calls for the spirits of the ancestral dead to bring rain, they come. 11. The priests enter the kiva through a ladder descending 16 ✦ Native-American Songs, Ritual Poetry, and Lyric Poetry.
... hold of me. Presenting me to all the directions he made me arise. With his prayer meal Four times he sprinkled his water-filled ladder.11 After him, Four times I sprinkled my prayer meal. Taking four steps, Four times striding forward ...
... hold of me. Yonder to allthe directions presenting me, He made me sit down. Having seated me, The one who is my father Took the water-bringing cigarette which he hadprepared. Four times drawing it toward him, He took his grandmother by ...
Contents
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MICHAEL WIGGLESWORTH 16311705 | 67 |
EDWARD TAYLOR ca 16421729 | 75 |
from Gods Determinations | 86 |
LUCY TERRY ca 17301821 Bars Fight | 94 |
PHILIP FRENEAU 17521832 | 95 |
PHILLIS WHEATLEY ca 17531784 | 104 |
ALICE CARY 18201871 | 469 |
FREDERICK GODDARD TUCKERMAN 18211873 | 471 |
PHOEBE CARY 18241871 | 477 |
MARIA WHITE LOWELL 18271853 | 497 |
ROSE TERRY COOKE 18271892 | 504 |
JOHN ROLLIN RIDGE 18271867 | 516 |
Jinshan Fu XingSong of the Wife of a Gold Mountain Man | 524 |
LATER NINETEENTH CENTURY | 533 |
JOEL BARLOW 17541812 | 115 |
SONGS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION AND NEW NATION | 121 |
EARLY TO MIDNINETEENTH CENTURY | 137 |
NATIVEAMERICAN SONGS RITUAL POETRY | 147 |
Song of the Earth navajo | 153 |
LYDIA HOWARD HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY 17911865 | 159 |
GEORGE MOSES HORTON ca 17971883 | 173 |
PROSE | 202 |
Letter to Walt Whitman | 219 |
Prologue | 235 |
JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER 18071892 | 259 |
EDGAR ALLAN POE 18091849 | 294 |
PROSE | 320 |
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES 18091894 | 329 |
ABRAHAM LINCOLN 18091865 | 341 |
FRANCES SARGENT LOCKE OSGOOD 18111850 | 350 |
ADA SARAH LOUISA FORTEN ca 18141898 | 355 |
JULIA WARD HOWE 18191910 | 363 |
OTHER POEMS | 374 |
WALT WHITMAN 18191892 | 380 |
ZARAGOZA CLUBS 1860s | 540 |
DEWITT CLINTON DUNCAN TOOQUASTEE 18291909 | 542 |
EMILY DICKINSON 18301886 | 548 |
could not stop for death | 567 |
Volcanoes be in Sicily | 580 |
ADAH ISAACS MENKEN ca 18351868 | 589 |
B PIATT 18361919 | 595 |
LYDIA KAMAKAEHA QUEEN LILIUOKALANI 18381917 | 605 |
SIDNEY LANIER 18421881 | 617 |
SARAH ORNE JEWETT 18491909 | 631 |
EDWIN MARKHAM 18521940 | 646 |
MARY MCNEIL FENOLLOSA 18651954 | 663 |
EDGAR LEE MASTERS 18681950 | 676 |
WILLIAM VAUGHN MOODY 18691910 | 685 |
EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON 18691935 | 693 |
STEPHEN CRANE 18711900 | 706 |
Do not weep maiden for war is kind | 710 |
About the Editors | 729 |
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