American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century Vol. 2 (LOA #67): Melville to Stickney / American Indian Poetry / Folk Songs & Spirituals

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John Hollander
Library of America, 1993 - 1050 pages
Included in the anthology is newly researched biographical sketches of each poet, a year-by-year chronology of poets and poetry from 1800-1900, and extensive notes.

Contents

HERMAN MELVILLE 18191891
1
HENRY HOWARD BROWNELL 18201872
87
FREDERICK GODDARD TUCKERMAN 18211873
100
MARIA WHITE LOWELL 18211853
117
THOMAS BUCHANAN READ 18221872
127
JAMES MATHEWES LEGARÉ 18231859
133
CHARLES GODFREY LELAND 18241903
146
PHOEBE CARY 18241871
154
AMBROSE BIERCE 18421914?
433
RICHARD WATSON GILDER 18441909
445
JOHN BANISTER TABB 18451909
451
SARAH ORNE JEWETT 18491909
465
JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY 18491916
471
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX 18501919
479
ALBERY ALLSON WHITMAN 18511901
487
EDWIN MARKHAM 18521940
496

BAYARD TAYLOR 18251878
163
STEPHEN FOSTER 18261864
172
ROBERT LOWRY 18261899
176
JOHN ROLLIN RIDGE 18271867
183
JOHN TOWNSEND TROWBRIDGE 18271916
191
HENRY TIMROD 18281867
201
PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE 18301886
220
HELEN HUNT JACKSON 18301885
222
The nearest Dream recedesunrealized
244
dreaded that first Robin so
250
It would never be Commonmore I said
256
They put Us far apart
262
started EarlyTook my Dog
268
The Heart asks Pleasurefirst
269
think I was enchanted
275
cannot live with You
281
The Sun kept settingsettingstill
287
On a Columnar Self
292
To pile like Thunder to its close
305
BENJAMIN PAUL BLOOD 18321919
317
HENRY CLAY WORK 18321884
323
AUGUSTA COOPER BRISTOL 18351910
332
ADAH ISAACS MENKEN 1835?1868
335
SARAH MORGAN PIATT 18361919
349
FORCEYTHE WILLSON 18371867
362
JOAQUIN MILLER 18371913
369
ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN 18381886
377
JOHN HAY 18381905
381
JAMES RYDER RANDALL 18391908
390
EDWARD ROWLAND SILL 18411887
397
SIDNEY LANIER 18421881
403
ERNEST FENOLLOSA 18531908
500
JAMES A BLAND 18541911
515
KATHARINE LEE BATES 18591929
522
HARRIET MONROE 18601936
529
EDITH WHARTON 18621937
535
JOHN JAY CHAPMAN 18621933
543
STUART MERRILL 18631915
556
MADISON CAWEIN 18651914
567
GELETT BURGESS 1866195
573
EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON 18691935
586
Luke Havergal
592
STEPHEN CRANE 18711900
600
PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR 18721906
610
POSEY 18731908
627
TRUMBULL STICKNEY 18741904
635
19THCENTURY VERSIONS OF AMERICAN INDIAN POETRY
661
Minnetare Songs Hidatsa
679
Soldiers Song Sioux
692
from The Mountain Chant Navajo
705
Incantations of Modoc Conjurers
718
BY 723
723
from The Hardening of the World and the First Settlement
726
Songs of the Kwakiutl Indians
735
Songs of Spirits Wintun
741
FOLK SONGS AND SPIRITUALS
757
Chronology
825
Biographical Notes
869
As i
873
Note on the Texts
945
Index of Poets
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About the author (1993)

John Hollander (1929-2013), editor, was a distinguished poet, critic, and teacher whose many collections included The Night Mirror (1971), Reflections on Espionage(1976), Spectral Emanations (1978), and Powers of Thirteen (1983). He was a MacArthur Fellow and was awarded the Bollingen Prize in 1983. He also edited two volumes in the Library of America's American Poets Project series: American Wits: An Anthology of Light Verse (2003) and Emma Lazarus: Selected Poems (2005).