The Main Lines of American LiteratureRaymond Wright Short, Wilbur Stewart Scott Holt, 1954 - 648 pages |
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... poems are reprinted from Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters , with the permission of Mrs. Edgar Lee Masters . " Mike Fink " is from Mike Fink , King of Mississippi Keelboatmen , by Walter Blair and Franklin J. Meine , published ...
... poems are reprinted from Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters , with the permission of Mrs. Edgar Lee Masters . " Mike Fink " is from Mike Fink , King of Mississippi Keelboatmen , by Walter Blair and Franklin J. Meine , published ...
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... poems , and after the Civil War turned to poems expressing the homely virtues and pleasures . Lacking the backing of serious conviction and genuine talents , many of the authors from 1840 to 1880 were not only dull in themselves , but ...
... poems , and after the Civil War turned to poems expressing the homely virtues and pleasures . Lacking the backing of serious conviction and genuine talents , many of the authors from 1840 to 1880 were not only dull in themselves , but ...
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... poems of which the center of interest was a character's individual situation in life and ( that great re - discovery of realism ) his individual psychology . Carl Sandburg should be mentioned here . Superficially his poems have an ...
... poems of which the center of interest was a character's individual situation in life and ( that great re - discovery of realism ) his individual psychology . Carl Sandburg should be mentioned here . Superficially his poems have an ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 9 |
WILLIAM BRADFORD 20 | 20 |
NATHANIEL WARD 330 | 30 |
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