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Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 552
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The American Library of Art, Literature and Song
Author: Song
Author: Carol KimballPublisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN: 1617749974
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 603
Book Description
Carol Kimball's comprehensive survey of art song literature has been the principal one-volume American source on the topic. Now back in print after an absence of several years this newly revised edition includes biographies and discussions of the work of
American Poetry: The Twentieth Century Vol. 2 (LOA #116)
Author: Edward Estlin CummingsPublisher: Library of America: The Americ
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Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 1064
Book Description
Anthology of poems by 20th century American poets.
Outstanding Books for the College Bound
Author: Angela CarstensenPublisher: American Library Association
ISBN: 083899315X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 175
Book Description
More than simply a vital collection development tool, this book can help librarians help young adults grow into the kind of independent readers and thinkers who will flourish at college.
American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century Vol. 2 (LOA #67)
Author: VariousPublisher: Library of America
ISBN: 9780940450783
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 1096
Book Description
This second volume of The Library of America’s two-volume collection of nineteenth-century American poetry follows the evolution of American poetry from the monumental mid-century achievements of Herman Melville and Emily Dickinson to the modernist stirrings of Stephen Crane and Edwin Arlington Robinson. The cataclysm of the Civil War—reflected in fervent antislavery protests, in marching songs and poetic calls to arms, and in muted post-bellum expressions of grief and reconciliation—ushered in a period of accelerating change and widening regional perspectives. Here too are the pioneering African-American poets (Frances Harper, Albery Allson Whitman, Paul Laurence Dunbar); popular humorists (James Whitcomb Riley, Eugene Field); writers embodying America’s newfound cosmopolitanism (Edith Wharton, George Santayana); and extravagant self-mythologizing figures who could have existed nowhere else, like the actress Adah Isaacs Menken and the frontier poet Joaquin Miller. Parodies, dialect poems, song lyrics, and children’s verse evoke the liveliness of an era when poetry was accessible to all. Here are poems that played a crucial role in American public life, whether to arouse the national conscience (Edwin Markham’s “The Man with the Hoe”) or to memorialize the golden age of the national pastime (Ernest Lawrence Thayer’s “Casey at the Bat”). An entire section of this volume is devoted to American Indian poetry in nineteenth-century versions, making available—some for the first time since their initial publication—an astonishing range of translations and adaptations: Ojibwa healing rituals, the songs of the Ghost Dance religion, Zuni mythological narratives, chants from the Kwakiutl Winter Ceremonial. Also included is a generous selection from America’s rich heritage of anonymous folk songs, ballads, and hymns. Unprecedented in its textual authority, the anthology includes newly researched biographical sketches of each poet, a year-by-year chronology of poets and poetry from 1800 to 1900, and extensive notes. LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation’s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America’s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.
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Author: A Catalogue of Old, Rare and Curious Books
Author: George E. Littlefield (Firm)Publisher:
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 924
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Author: Toronto Public LibrariesPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 388
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The Americana
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 888
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