Anthology of American Literature, المجلد 1Represents the American literary works most respected by modern scholars. Volume I covers Christopher Columbus through Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson. This book also emphasizes the contributions to the American literary canon made by women and minority authors. Extensive explanatory headnotes and footnotes link the works and authors of a period and provide readers with additional insights into each selection. New to this edition is an expanded presentation of Native American literature (myths, tales, autobiography, etc.). |
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الصفحة 793
I prefer commencing with the consideration of an effect . Keeping original- ity always in view - for he is false to himself who ventures to dispense with so obvious and so easily attainable a source of interest - I say to myself ...
I prefer commencing with the consideration of an effect . Keeping original- ity always in view - for he is false to himself who ventures to dispense with so obvious and so easily attainable a source of interest - I say to myself ...
الصفحة 795
Within this limit , the extent of a poem may be made to bear mathematical relation to its merit - in other words , to the ex- citement or elevation — again in other words , to the degree of the true poeti- cal effect which it is capable ...
Within this limit , the extent of a poem may be made to bear mathematical relation to its merit - in other words , to the ex- citement or elevation — again in other words , to the degree of the true poeti- cal effect which it is capable ...
الصفحة 798
Had I been able , in the sub- sequent composition , to construct more vigorous stanzas , I should , without scruple , have purposely enfeebled them , so as not to interfere with the cli- macteric effect . And here I may as well say a ...
Had I been able , in the sub- sequent composition , to construct more vigorous stanzas , I should , without scruple , have purposely enfeebled them , so as not to interfere with the cli- macteric effect . And here I may as well say a ...
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المحتوى
Columbuss Letter Describing His First Voyage | 15 |
CAPTAIN JOHN SMITH | 22 |
FROM A Description of New England | 36 |
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American amongst Anne Bradstreet appeared Bay Psalm Book began better blessed Boston brought Business called Captain Christ Christian church Colony Cotton Mather death Deerslayer divine doth earth Edgar Allan Poe enemies England English eyes father fear fire Franklin friends gave give glory God's Governor grace hand hath heard heart heaven holy Indians James Fenimore Cooper John John Winthrop Jonathan Edwards King land liberty Ligeia lived look Lord manner Massachusetts Massachusetts Bay Colony master mercy mind nature never night Olaudah Equiano pain person Phillis Wheatley Pilgrims Plymouth poems poor Psalms Puritan Quakers religion River Roger Williams sailed savages sent ship slaves soon soul spirit sweet thee things thou thought tion told took trees unto William woman women word writing young