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 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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... Night 146 NATIVE-AMERICAN SONGS, RITUAL POETRY, AND LYRIC POETRY (1800–1900) . . . . from The Mountain Chant [navajo] One of the Awl Songs 148 Last Song of the Exploding Stick 149 from The Night Chant [navajo] Song in the Rock 149 Last ...
... Night Chant " is a superb illustration of a long narrative drawing on a mythic subtext and employing formu- lae , conventionalized symbolic expressions in either phrases or lines . It is sung each December in New Mexico as part of an ...
... Night Chant And now indeed it has come to pass. When the sun who is our father Had yet a little ways to go to reach his left-hand altar,1 Our daylight father, Pekwin of the Dogwood ... Night Chant 7 ✦ Sayatasha's Night Chant [zuni]
... night The divine ones With us , their children , came to day . Next day , when our sun father Had come out standing to his sacred place , Saying , " Let it be now , ” Over there to the south , Whence the earth is clothed anew , Our ...
... mothers , Your children , You will pass on their roads . Wherever you come to rest , 14. The spirits await the request of the Zuni for assistance . All together we shall come to you . All the Sayatasha's Night Chant 19.
Contents
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MICHAEL WIGGLESWORTH 16311705 | 67 |
EDWARD TAYLOR ca 16421729 | 75 |
LUCY TERRY ca 17301821 | 93 |
PHILIP FRENEAU 17521832 | 95 |
PHILLIS WHEATLEY ca 17531784 On Being Brought from Africa to America | 106 |
To S M a Young African Painter on Seeing His Works | 113 |
MARIA WHITE LOWELL 18271853 | 497 |
ROSE TERRY COOKE 18271892 | 504 |
JOHN ROLLIN RIDGE 18271867 The Stolen White Girl 517 | 517 |
Jinshan Fu XingSong of the Wife of a Gold Mountain Man | 524 |
Introduction | 535 |
DEWITT CLINTON DUNCAN TOOQUASTEE 18291909 | 542 |
EMILY DICKINSON 18301886 | 548 |
taste a liquor never brewed | 555 |
SONGS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION AND NEW NATION | 121 |
Introduction | 139 |
NATIVEAMERICAN SONGS RITUAL POETRY | 147 |
Sleep wintu | 156 |
LYDIA HOWARD HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY 17911865 | 159 |
GEORGE MOSES HORTON ca 17971883 | 173 |
The Poet | 202 |
ELIZABETH OAKES SMITH 18061893 | 220 |
JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER 18071892 | 259 |
EDGAR ALLAN POE 18091849 | 294 |
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES 18091894 | 329 |
ABRAHAM LINCOLN 18091865 | 341 |
FRANCES SARGENT LOCKE OSGOOD 18111850 | 350 |
ADA SARAH LOUISA FORTEN ca 18141898 The Slave Girls Farewell | 356 |
JULIA WARD HOWE 18191910 | 363 |
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL 18191891 | 376 |
WALT WHITMAN 18191892 | 380 |
75 | 411 |
104 | 422 |
ALICE CARY 18201871 | 469 |
FREDERICK GODDARD TUCKERMAN 18211873 | 471 |
PHOEBE CARY 18241871 | 477 |
The soul has bandaged moments | 561 |
was the slightest in the house | 567 |
Volcanoes be in Sicily | 580 |
ADAH ISAACS MENKEN ca 18351868 | 589 |
B PIATT 18361919 Giving Back the Flower | 597 |
We Two | 603 |
INA COOLBRITH 18411928 | 610 |
SIDNEY LANIER 18421881 The Marshes of Glynn | 618 |
City Visions | 627 |
SARAH ORNE JEWETT 18491909 | 631 |
EDWIN MARKHAM 18521940 The Man with the Hoe 647 | 647 |
MARY MCNEIL FENOLLOSA 18651954 | 663 |
EDGAR LEE MASTERS 18681950 | 676 |
WILLIAM VAUGHN MOODY 18691910 | 685 |
EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON 18691935 | 693 |
JAMES WELDON JOHNSON 18711938 O Black and Unknown Bards | 713 |
Dawn | 723 |
469 | 731 |
329 | 732 |
221 | 733 |
147 | 734 |
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