A History of American Literature Since 1870Century Company, 1915 - 449 pages |
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... POETS VIII RISE OF THE NATURE WRITERS PAGE . 3 25 1435 63 888 · • 83 99 116 . 137 IX WALT WHITMAN . 163 Χ THE CLASSICAL REACTION . 186 XI RECORDERS OF THE NEW ENGLAND DECLINE 220 XII THE NEW ROMANCE . • 244 XIII LATER POETS OF THE SOUTH ...
... POETS VIII RISE OF THE NATURE WRITERS PAGE . 3 25 1435 63 888 · • 83 99 116 . 137 IX WALT WHITMAN . 163 Χ THE CLASSICAL REACTION . 186 XI RECORDERS OF THE NEW ENGLAND DECLINE 220 XII THE NEW ROMANCE . • 244 XIII LATER POETS OF THE SOUTH ...
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... poets write theology , our novels are theological . . . even our statesmen cannot write without treating theology . " ' + The forties and fifties struggled with sensitive conscience over the great prob- lems of right and wrong , of ...
... poets write theology , our novels are theological . . . even our statesmen cannot write without treating theology . " ' + The forties and fifties struggled with sensitive conscience over the great prob- lems of right and wrong , of ...
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... poet springs from his times and voices his era because he must . If his era smothers him , then so much the less poet he . No war can check the rise of a new school of poets if the soul of that new age is one to be expressed in poetry ...
... poet springs from his times and voices his era because he must . If his era smothers him , then so much the less poet he . No war can check the rise of a new school of poets if the soul of that new age is one to be expressed in poetry ...
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... poet , as Wordsworth had defined him in 1815 , as " a man speaking to men . " America , in the sturdy vigor of ... poets . In a broad sense , no age has ever had more of poetry , for the message and the vision and thrill , which in older ...
... poet , as Wordsworth had defined him in 1815 , as " a man speaking to men . " America , in the sturdy vigor of ... poets . In a broad sense , no age has ever had more of poetry , for the message and the vision and thrill , which in older ...
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... poetic in their spirit and diction . But things must be what they pretend to be , or they will disgust him . Everywhere there is scorn for the mere echoer of the enthusiasm of others . He will not gush over an unworthy thing even if he ...
... poetic in their spirit and diction . But things must be what they pretend to be , or they will disgust him . Everywhere there is scorn for the mere echoer of the enthusiasm of others . He will not gush over an unworthy thing even if he ...
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Page 186 - When I heard the learn'd astronomer When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me, When I was shown the charts and...
Page 82 - Mr. Oakhurst received his sentence with philosophic calmness, none the less coolly that he was aware of the hesitation of his judges. He was too much of a gambler not to accept Fate. With him life was at best an uncertain game, and he recognized the usual percentage in favor of the dealer.
Page 101 - Happy, if with my latest breath I may but gasp his name ; Preach him to all, and cry in death, "Behold, behold the Lamb!
Page 51 - Steam-boat a-comin' !" and the scene changes ! The town drunkard stirs, the clerks wake up, a furious clatter of drays follows, every house and store pours out a human contribution, and all in a twinkling the dead town is alive and moving. Drays, carts, men, boys, all go hurrying from many quarters to a common center, the wharf.
Page 173 - To any one dying, thither I speed and twist the knob of the door, Turn the bed-clothes toward the foot of the bed, Let the physician and the priest go home. I seize the descending man and raise him with resistless will, 0 despairer, here is my neck, By God, you shall not go down ! hang your whole weight upon me. 1 dilate you with tremendous. breath, I buoy you up, Every room of the house do I fill with an arm'd force, Lovers of me, bafflers of graves.
Page 146 - I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
Page 355 - Give a rouse, then, in the Maytime For a life that knows no fear! Turn night-time into daytime With the sunlight of good cheer! For it's always fair weather When good fellows get together With a stein on the table and a good song ringing clear.
Page 51 - ... skids" on the slope of the stone-paved wharf, and the fragrant town drunkard asleep in the shadow of them,- two or three wood flats at the head of the wharf, but nobody to listen to the peaceful lapping of the wavelets against them; the great Mississippi, the majestic, the magnificent Mississippi, rolling its mile- wide tide along, shining in the sun; the dense forest away on the other side,- the "point" above the town, and the "point...
Page 21 - The principal object, then, proposed in these Poems was to choose incidents and situations from common life, and to relate or describe them, throughout, as far as was possible in a selection of language really used by men...
Page 51 - ... texas" deck behind them; the paddle-boxes are gorgeous with a picture or with gilded rays above the boat's name; the boiler deck, the hurricane deck, and the texas deck are fenced and ornamented with clean white railings; there is a flag gallantly flying from the jack-staff; the furnace doors are open and the fires glaring bravely; the upper decks are black with passengers; the captain stands by the big bell, calm, imposing, the envy of all...