The Cambridge History of American Literature: Later national literature: pt. IIWilliam Peterfield Trent, John Erskine, Stuart Pratt Sherman, Carl Van Doren G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1921 |
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... POETS By NORMAN FOERSTER , A.M. , Professor of English in the University of North Carolina . Poets of East and West . New England . Emily Dickinson . Thomas Bailey Aldrich . Minor Figures . The Middle States . Bayard Taylor . Richard ...
... POETS By NORMAN FOERSTER , A.M. , Professor of English in the University of North Carolina . Poets of East and West . New England . Emily Dickinson . Thomas Bailey Aldrich . Minor Figures . The Middle States . Bayard Taylor . Richard ...
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... poet , humorist , and lecturer , when he wrote in the assumed character of a veteran bibliomaniac : " I am aweary and will rest a little while ; lie thou there , my pen , for a dream - a pleasant dream - calleth me away . ” A few weeks ...
... poet , humorist , and lecturer , when he wrote in the assumed character of a veteran bibliomaniac : " I am aweary and will rest a little while ; lie thou there , my pen , for a dream - a pleasant dream - calleth me away . ” A few weeks ...
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... the close of the period . Just at present , judicious Americans are importing their best current humour from Canada . I See Book III , Chap . VI . I CHAPTER X Later Poets N the expanding , heterogeneous 30 Minor Humorists.
... the close of the period . Just at present , judicious Americans are importing their best current humour from Canada . I See Book III , Chap . VI . I CHAPTER X Later Poets N the expanding , heterogeneous 30 Minor Humorists.
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... poets are many and all are minor it is difficult to make a choice , but on the whole it seems that the outstanding poets of the East were Emily Dickinson , Aldrich , Bayard Taylor , R. H. Stoddard , Stedman , Gilder , and Hovey ; and of ...
... poets are many and all are minor it is difficult to make a choice , but on the whole it seems that the outstanding poets of the East were Emily Dickinson , Aldrich , Bayard Taylor , R. H. Stoddard , Stedman , Gilder , and Hovey ; and of ...
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... as her poems show . In an unexpected light on orchards , in a wistful mood of meadow or wood - border held secure for a I See Book III , Chap . XIII . Emily Dickinson 33 moment before it vanished ; in the 32 Later Poets.
... as her poems show . In an unexpected light on orchards , in a wistful mood of meadow or wood - border held secure for a I See Book III , Chap . XIII . Emily Dickinson 33 moment before it vanished ; in the 32 Later Poets.
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