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In his unconventional verse, Walt Whitman spoke in a powerful, sensual, oratorical, and inspiring voice. His most famous work, Leaves of Grass, was a long-term project that the poet compared to the building of a cathedral or the slow growth of a tree. During his lifetime, from 1819 to 1892, it went through nine editions. Today it is regarded as a landmark of American literature. This volume contains 24 poems from Leaves of Grass, offering a generous...
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American poets project volume 23
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English
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Superb collection of poems by the Pulitzer Prize—winning poet.
This collection of Sandburg's finest and most representative poetry draws on all of his previous volumes and includes four unpublished poems about Lincoln. The Hendricks's comprehensive introduction discusses how Sandburg's life and beliefs colored his work and why it continues to resonate so deeply with Americans today.
Edited and with an Introduction by George and Willene Hendrick....
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The Library of America
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c2003
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English
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In this book John Hollander offers a buoyant guided tour of American light verse-a tradition he pursues from Ambrose Bierce's sardonic The devil's dictionary quatrains to the latter-day comic inventions of Edward Gorey, Kenneth Koch, and James Merrill. Along the way, American wits gathers a rich harvest of couplets, clerihews, epigrams, parodies, burlesques, and other forms of fractured verse. The varied and often surprising list of contributors includes...
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American poets project volume 19
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Library of America
Pub. Date
2005
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English
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American poets project volume 17
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Library of America
Pub. Date
c2005
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English
18) Selected poems
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American poets project volume 18
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Library of America
Pub. Date
c2005
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English
19) Selected poems
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American poets project volume 20
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Library of America
Pub. Date
c2006
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English
20) Selected poems
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American poets project volume 22
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Library of America
Pub. Date
c2006
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English
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