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Library of America volume 178
Language
English
Description
Presents a collection of early American poetry in a tribute to the diversity and range of poetic traditions from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and includes regional music ballads and Native American translations.
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Library of America volume 66-67
Language
English
Description
In nineteenth-century America, poetry was, part of everyday life, as familiar as a hymn, a love song, a patriotic exhortation. American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century reveals the vigor and diversity of a tradition embracing solitary visionaries and congenial storytellers, humorists and dissidents, songwriters and philosophers. These two volumes reassess America's poetic legacy with a comprehensive sweep that no previous anthology has attempted. This...
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Library of America volume 333
Language
English
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HPL 2024 National Poetry Month
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9) Writings
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Library of America volume 145
Language
English
Description
A compilation of works by the African-American writer includes the author's modernist novel "The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man, " as well as a selection of his essays, topical editorials from the New York Age, and poetry and lyrics, including "God's Trombones."
10) Complete poems
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Library of America volume 320
Language
English
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"Herman Melville ranks with Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson as one of the three great American poets of the nineteenth century. Whether meditating on the bloody battlefields of the Civil War, the mysteries of faith and doubt in the Holy Land, or the strange relationship between the Maldive Shark and the pilot fish that glide before "his Gorgonian head," Melville's verse combines precise physical detail and rich metaphysical speculation in an unorthodox...
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Series
Library of America volume 357
Language
English
Description
"Gary Snyder is one of America's indispensable poets, the "Thoreau of the Beat Generation" and our "poet laureate of deep ecology." Now, for the first time, all of Snyder's poetry is gathered in a single, authoritative Library of America volume. Here are all of Snyder's published books of poetry spanning a career of almost seventy years. Early collections such as Riprap and Cold Mountain Poems, Myths & Texts, and The Back Country reflect his hardscrabble...
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Library of America volume 304
Language
English
Description
"Albert Murray (1916-2013) was one of the most provocative and original American thinkers of the twentieth century, writing with equal grace and power as an essayist and novelist."--Page 4 of cover.
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