American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century Vol. 2 (Loa #67): Melville to Stickney / American Indian Poetry / Folk Songs & Spirituals

by John Hollander

Book Overview

This second volume of The Library of America's two-volume collection of nineteenth-century American poetry follows the evolution of American poetry from the monumental mid-century achievements of Herman Melville and Emily Dickinson to the modernist stirrings of Stephen Crane and Edwin Arlington Robinson. The cataclysm of the Civil War--reflected in fervent antislavery protests, in marching songs and poetic calls to arms, and in muted post-bellum expressions...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 094045078X
• ISBN13: 9780940450783
• Release Date: September 1993
• Publisher: Library of America
• Length: 1050 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 5.2" x 8.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

The best...

...series of American poetry anthologies, easily. Almost a thousand pages of verse per volume, excellent selections, helpful biographies and notes. Volumes One and Two are better still as their contents were selected exclusively by the peerlessly tasteful John Hollander, who wisely gives about half the space to the half-dozen greats (Whitman, Dickinson, Emerson, Melville, Longfellow, Bryant). These are among the best volumes of the invaluable Library of America series. Volumes Three and Four, covering the early 20th Century, are also available here and superb. Read these four through and this year will be twice as rich as last year.