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Featuring over 100 of the greatest poems ever written about the experiences, institutions, and landscapes that constitute America, this inspiring anthology celebrates the nation's incredible diversity, spirit, and freedom.

Notes:

Includes index.

Contents:

Introduction / Carmela Ciuraru
"Here Follows Some Verses upon the Burning of Our House July 10th, 1666. Copied Out of a Loose Paper" / Anne Bradstreet (c. 1612-1672)
"The Indian Burying Ground" / Philip Freneau (1752-1832)
"To the Right Honourable William, Earl of Dartmouth, His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for North America, &c." / Phillis Wheatley (c.1753-1784)
"To a Lady on Her Remarkable Preservation in an Hurricane in North Carolina"
"The Indian's Welcome to the Pilgrim Fathers" / Lydia Huntley Sigourney (1791-1865)
Excerpt, "The Prairies" / William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878)
"On Liberty and Slavery" / George Moses Horton (c.1797-c.1883)
"The New-England Boy's Song About Thanksgiving Day" / Lydia Maria Child (1802-1880)
"Concord Hymn" / Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
"Boston Hymn"
"Paul Revere's Ride" / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)
"Barbara Frietchie" / John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892)
"America" / Samuel Francis Smith (1808-1895)
"Old Ironsides" / Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894)
"The First Atlantic Telegraph" / Jones Very (1813-1880)
"Our Country" / Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
"An Ode for the Fourth of July, 1876" / James Russell Lowell (1819-1891)
"The Battle Hymn of the Republic" / Julia Ward Howe (1819-1910)
"Crossing Brooklyn Ferry" / Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
"City of Orgies"
"A Promise to California"
"I Hear America Singing"
"Ball's Bluff" / Herman Melville (1819-1891)
"America" / James Monroe Whitfield (1822-1871)
"The Slave Mother" / Frances E. W. Harper (1825-1911)
"Learning to Read"
"Ode Sung at Magnolia Cemetery" / Henry Timrod (1828-1867)
#389 [There's been a Death, in the Opposite House,"] / Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
#617 ["Don't put up my Thread and Needle
"]
"At Home from Church" / Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909)
"Long Island Sound" / Emma Lazarus (1849-1887)
"The New Colossus"
Excerpt, "The Old Swimmin'-Hole" / James Whitcomb Riley (1849-1916)
"The Anti-Suffragists" / Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935)
"Cabins" / Frank Bird Linderman (1869-1938)

"War Is Kind" / Stephen Crane (1871-1900)
"Thompson's Lunch Room
Grand Central Station" / Amy Lowell (1874-1925)
"The Dude Ranch" / Arthur Chapman (1874-1935)
"After Apple-Picking" / Robert Frost (1874-1963)
"I Sit and Sew" / Alice Moore Dunbar Nelson (1875-1935)
"Work Gangs" / Carl Sandburg (1878-1967)
"The Flower-Fed Buffaloes" / Vachel Lindsay (1879-1931)
"Fabliau of Florida" / Wallace Stevens (1879-1955)
"Anecdote of the Jar"
"The Legend of Boastful Bill" / Badger Clark Jr. (1883-1957)
"The Forgotten City" / William Carlos Williams (1883-1963)
"Old Amusement Park" / Marianne Moore (1887-1972)
"Love in America
"
"The Boston Evening Transcript" / T. S. Eliot (1888-1965)
"Dawn in New York" / Claude McKay (1890-1948)
"O Pioneers!" / John Peale Bishop (1892-1944)
"From a Train Window" / Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950)
"American Farm, 1934" / Genevieve Taggard (1894-1948)
"Proud Riders" / H. L. Davis (1894-1960)
"'next to of course god america i" / e. e. cummings (1894-1962)
"Thanksgiving (1956)"
"To Brooklyn Bridge" / Hart Crane (1899-1932)
"I Like Americans" / Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)
"In Praise of California Wines" / Yvor Winters (1900-1968)
"We're All in the Telephone Book" / Langston Hughes (1902-1967)
"Sonnet to a Negro in Harlem" / Helene Johnson (1907-1995)
"Product" / George Oppen (1908-1984)
"California"
"Invitation to Miss Marianne Moore" / Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979)
"Florida"
"Tract" / Josephine Miles (1911-1985)
"The Campaign"
"The Outer Banks" / Muriel Rukeyser (1913-1980)
"Despisals"

Related Subjects:

American poetry.

National characteristics, American -- Poetry.

United States -- Poetry.

POE001000 POETRY / Anthologies (multiple authors)

POE005010 POETRY / American / General.

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