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Informationen zum Autor Various Klappentext The voice of the nation rings out loud and clear in this unique anthology of great American poetry. Editors Oscar Williams and Edwin Honig concentrate on the work of 20 major American poets. They include sizable selections from the poetry of: • Wallace Stevens • Ralph Waldo Emerson • William Carlos Williams • Henry Wadsworth • Ezra Pound • Walt Whitman • Edgar Allen Poe • Emily Dickinson • Edna St. Vincent Millay • Stephen Crane • e. e. cummings • Robert Frost • Hart Crane • W. H. Auden • And more... Zusammenfassung The voice of the nation rings out loud and clear in this unique anthology of great American poetry. Editors Oscar Williams and Edwin Honig concentrate on the work of 20 major American poets. They include sizable selections from the poetry of: • Wallace Stevens • Ralph Waldo Emerson • William Carlos Williams • Henry Wadsworth • Ezra Pound • Walt Whitman • Edgar Allen Poe • Emily Dickinson • Edna St. Vincent Millay • Stephen Crane • e. e. cummings • Robert Frost • Hart Crane • W. H. Auden • And more... Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Edward Taylor (1645-1729) The Preface Our Insufficiency to Praise God Suitably for His Mercy Housewifery Am I Thy Gold? Or Purse, Lord, for Thy Wealth Thy Human Frame, My Glorious Lord, I Spy I Kenning through Astronomy Divine The Accusation of the Inward Man Upon a Spider Catching a Fly The Outward Man Accused The Joy of Church Fellowship Rightly Attended An Address to the Soul Occasioned by a Rain Stupendous Love! All Saints' Astonishment! Oh! What a Thing Is Man? Lord, Who Am I? Still I Complain; I Am Complaining Still Should I with Silver Tools Delve through the Hill The Reflection Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) Concord Hymn Brahma The Rhodora The Humblebee Each and All The Problem Woodnotes The Snowstorm Fable Days Saadi Hamatreya Experience Compensation Forbearance The Past Ode Give All to Love Terminus Good-bye Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) Hymn to the Night The Day Is Done Curfew The Jewish Cemetery at Newport My Lost Youth The Birds of Killingworth Divina Commedia The Fire of Driftwood Chaucer The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls The Cross of Snow The Bells of San Blas The Arrow and the Song Possibilities The Ropewalk from Evangeline from The Song of Hiawatha Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) Dreams A Dream within a Dream "The Happiest Day, The Happiest Hour" Sonnet - To Science Romance To Helen Israfel The City in the Sea The Sleeper To One in Paradise The Haunted Palace Sonnet - Silence The Conqueror Worm Dreamland The Raven The Bells Ulalume - A Ballad Eldorado For Annie Annabel Lee The Lake: To -- Alone Walt Whitman (1819-1892) Song of Myself (Complete) Native Moments Earth, My Likeness Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking I Sit and Look Out Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night Reconciliation When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomed O Captain! My Captain! To Think of Time Joy, Shipmate, Joy! Good-bye My Fancy! Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) Success Is Counted Sweetest One Dignity Delays for All New Feet within My Garden Go Surgeons Must Be Very Careful Faith Is a Fine Invention Hope Is the Thing with Feathers I Should Not Dare to Leave My Friend I Taste a Liquor Never Brewed There's a Certain Slant of Light I Felt a Funeral in My Brain I'm Nobody. Who Are You? The Soul Selects Her Own Society I Should Have Been Too Glad, I See Before I Got My Eye Put Out A Bird Came Do...
