Whitman's & Dickinson's contemporaries: an anthology of their verse

1195 Pages·1996·2.39 MB·English

by  Robert Bain

Whitman's & Dickinson's Contemporaries :
title:
An Anthology of Their Verse
author: Bain, Robert
publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
isbn10 | asin: 0809320312
print isbn13: 9780809320318
ebook isbn13: 9780585031439
language: English
American poetry--19th century, Whitman,
Walt,--1819-1892--Contemporaries,
subject
Dickinson, Emily,--1830-1886--
Contemporaries.
publication date: 1996
lcc: PS607.W455 1996eb
ddc: 811/.308
American poetry--19th century, Whitman,
Walt,--1819-1892--Contemporaries,
subject:
Dickinson, Emily,--1830-1886--
Contemporaries.
Whitman's &
Dickinson's
Contemporaries
An Anthology Of Their Verse
Edited and with an Introduction by
Robert Bain
Southern Illinois University Press
Carbondale and Edwardsville
Copyright © 1996 by the Board of Trustees,
Southern Illinois University
All rights reserved
Printed in the United States of America
Designed by Chiquita Babb
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Whitman's and Dickinson's contemporaries: an anthology of their
verse
/ edited and with an introduction by Robert Bain.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. American poetry19th century. 2. Whitman, Walt,
18191892Contemporaries. 3. Dickinson, Emily,
18301886Contemporaries.
I. Bain, Robert, 1932
PS607.W455 1996
811'.308dc20 95-9867
ISBN 0-8093-1721-4 (cloth). ISBN 0-8093-2031-2 (pbk.) CIP
The paper used in this publication meets the minimumrequirements of
American National Standard for InformationSciencesPermanence of
Paper for Printed LibraryMaterials, ANSI Z39.481984.
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Page vii
Contents
Preface xxi
Introduction xxiii
Lydia Huntley Sigourney (17911865) Wilson Somerville 1
Death of an Infant 3
Hebrew Dirge 4
The Indian's Welcome to the Pilgrim Fathers 5
The Early Blue-Bird 6
Monody on Mrs. Hemans 7
To a Shred of Linen 9
William Cullen Bryant (17941878) Glenn Blalock 12
Thanatopsis 15
To a Waterfowl 17
The Prairies 18
The Poet 20
The Death of Lincoln 22
from The Flood of Years 22
George Moses Horton (1797?1883?) Paul Crumbley 25
On Liberty and Slavery 27
Division of an Estate 29
George Moses Horton, Myself 30
The Obstructions of Genius 30
The Art of a Poet 31
The Spectator of the Battle of Belmont, November 6, 32
1863
Lincoln Is Dead 33
Peace at Home 33
Page viii
Sarah Helen Whitman (18031878) Lisa Carl 35
from Sonnets: To Elizabeth Barrett Browning 37
from Sonnets: To 38
Night Wanes 38
from Christmas Eve 39
The Portrait 40
Science 41
Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882) Robert Bain 42
Each and All 44
Hamatreya 46
The Rhodora 47
The Snow-Storm 48
Ode Inscribed to W. H. Channing 49
Merlin 51
Bacchus 55
Concord Hymn 56
Brahma 57
Days 58
William Gilmore Simms (18061870) Terry Roberts 59
The Lost Pleiad 61
The Edge of the Swamp 62
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (18071882) Robert Bain 65
A Psalm of Life 67
Hymn to the Night 68
The Slave Singing at Midnight 69
The Arsenal at Springfield 70
The Day Is Done 71
Seaweed 73
from The Song of Hiawatha 74
My Lost Youth 79
Snow-Flakes 82
Chaucer 82
Milton 83
Page ix
The Cross of Snow 83
The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls 84
John Greenleaf Whittier (18071892) Robert Bain 85
Ichabod! 87
Skipper Ireson's Ride 88
The Double-Headed Snake of Newbury 91
from Snow-Bound 94
Edgar Allan Poe (18091849) Robert Bain 111
SonnetTo Science 114
Romance 114
To Helen 115
Israfel 115
The City in the Sea 117
The Haunted Palace 118
The Conqueror Worm 119
Dream-Land 121
The Raven 122
Oliver Wendell Holmes (18091894) Robert Bain 127
Old Ironsides 128
The Last Leaf 129
The Chambered Nautilus 131