The Cambridge history of American literature. Volume 4, Nineteenth-century poetry 1800-1910 / Edited...
The Cambridge history of American literature. Volume 4, Nineteenth-century poetry 1800-1910 / Edited by Sacvan Bercovitch. [electronic resource]
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Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2004.
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English
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1 online resource (x, 562 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
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text
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computer
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online resource
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American verse Traditions, 1800-1855 / Barbara Packer -- Preface: reverence and ambition -- Neoclassicism: comic and satiric verse -- Early narrative and lyric -- Transcendentalism -- John Greenleaf Whittier -- Poetry and public discourse, 1820-1910 / Shira Wolosky -- Preface: the claims of rhetoric...
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Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2004.
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England
Date Published
2004.
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This is the first complete narrative history of nineteenth-century American poetry. Barbara Packer explores the neoclassical and satiric forms mastered by the early Federalist poets; the creative reaches of once-celebrated, and still compelling, poets like Longfellow and Whittier; the distinctive lyric forms developed by Emerson and the Transcenden...
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The Cambridge history of American literature. Volume 4, Nineteenth-century poetry 1800-1910 / Edited by Sacvan Bercovitch. [electronic resource]
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English
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74VKVZROamyg
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811.309
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991023970901102626
