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.

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HERMAN MELVILLE 18191891
1
HENRY HOWARD BROWNELL 18201872
87
JOHN HENRY HOPKINS JR 18201891
98
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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).