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In nineteenth-century America, poetry was, part of everyday life, as familiar as a hymn, a love song, a patriotic exhortation. American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century reveals the vigor and diversity of a tradition embracing solitary visionaries and congenial storytellers, humorists and dissidents, songwriters and philosophers. These two volumes reassess America's poetic legacy with a comprehensive sweep that no previous anthology has attempted. This second volume 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 postbellum expressions of grief and reconciliation - ushered in a period of accelerating change and widening regional perspectives. Among the unfamiliar pleasures to be savored in this volume are the penetrating meditations of the reclusive Frederick Goddard Tuckerman, the eloquent lyricism of Emma Lazarus, the mournful, superbly crafted fin de siecle verse of Trumbull Stickney. Here too are the pioneering African-American poets (Frances Harper, Albery Allson Whitman, Paul Laurence Dunbar); popular humorists (James Whitcomb Riley, Eugene Field); writers embodying America's newfound cosmopolitanism (Edith Wharton, George Santayana); and extravagant self-mythologizing figures who could have existed nowhere else, like the actress Adah Isaacs Menken and the frontier poet Joaquin Miller. Parodies, dialect poems, song lyrics, and children's verse evoke the liveliness of an era when poetry was accessible toall. Here are poems that played a crucial role in American public life, whether to arouse the national conscience (Edwin Markham's The Man with the Hoe) or to memorialize the golden age of the national pastime (Ernest Lawrence Thayer's Casey at the Bat). An entire section of this vol...

This mystery is the first in a critically acclaimed series featuring Commissario Guido Brunetti, a man with integrity who uses both a personal moral code and a well-developed sense of cynicism to solve crimes within the corrupt bureaucracy of Venice, Italy. The author is an American who has spent several years living in Venice. The initial case in the series concerns a famous German conductor who is poisoned between acts two and three of LA TRAVIATA. Is the murderer the grieving wife, the opera director, the soprano diva, the diva's lesbian lover...or does the key to this case lie deeper in the conductor's past? DEATH AT LA FENICE won Japan's 1991 Suntory Prize for Best Suspense Novel.
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Seeking to build a new life for herself, Annie McGregor, a former indentured servant, joins a group of settlers led by Ike Reardon on a quest across the mountains to new lands in Tennessee. Original.
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