American Poems: Longfellow: Whittier: Bryant: Holmes: Lowell: EmersonHorace Elisha Scudder Houghton, Mifflin, 1879 - 455 pages |
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... poets whose works are included in it , but , because the poems are of them- selves worthy and the group is American ... poets have wrought , how high an ideal has been before them , and with what grace and beauty their lives have ...
... poets whose works are included in it , but , because the poems are of them- selves worthy and the group is American ... poets have wrought , how high an ideal has been before them , and with what grace and beauty their lives have ...
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... poets appear again , the opportunity has been taken to call attention more specifically to the art , as here to the biographic details . The two volumes will be found to complement each other . JANUARY , 1880 . PREFACE . Read- THIS ...
... poets appear again , the opportunity has been taken to call attention more specifically to the art , as here to the biographic details . The two volumes will be found to complement each other . JANUARY , 1880 . PREFACE . Read- THIS ...
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... poet upon a long flight of imag . ination , the exercise of the mind in bolder sweep of thought . Moreover , the familiarity with long poems produces greater power of appreciation when the shorter ones are taken up . It is much to take ...
... poet upon a long flight of imag . ination , the exercise of the mind in bolder sweep of thought . Moreover , the familiarity with long poems produces greater power of appreciation when the shorter ones are taken up . It is much to take ...
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... poet's entrance into the riches of the Old World life . In the same year was published Voices of the Night , a little volume containing chiefly poems and translations which had been printed separately in periodicals . The Psalm of Life ...
... poet's entrance into the riches of the Old World life . In the same year was published Voices of the Night , a little volume containing chiefly poems and translations which had been printed separately in periodicals . The Psalm of Life ...
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... poet's , for often the form of the poem is so far dramatic that the poet is as- suming a character not necessarily his own , but the recurrence of certain strains , joined with personal allusions , helps one to penetrate the slight veil ...
... poet's , for often the form of the poem is so far dramatic that the poet is as- suming a character not necessarily his own , but the recurrence of certain strains , joined with personal allusions , helps one to penetrate the slight veil ...
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