ABSTRACT

First Published in 2004. From Philip Freneau to Walt Whitman, Herman Melville to Trumbull Stickney, this collection of two volumes, selected by John Hollander, gives an insight into the artform during the nineteenth century. This collection is sorted by author with focus on American Indian Poetry, Folk Songs and Spirituals. An extensive list of works with attention to their chronology and editor notes on the texts within.

chapter |11 pages

Philip Freneau (1752-1832)

chapter |15 pages

Joel Barlow (1754-1812)

chapter |2 pages

Manoah Bodman (1765-1850)

chapter |9 pages

John Quincy Adams (1767-1848)

chapter |6 pages

James Kirke Paulding (1778-1860)

chapter |2 pages

Clement Moore (1779-1863)

chapter |2 pages

Francis Scott Key (1779-1843)

chapter |15 pages

Washington Allston (1779-1843)

chapter |7 pages

Johnpierpont (1785-1866)

chapter |1 pages

Samuel Woodworth (1785-1842)

chapter |14 pages

Richard Henry Dana (1787-1879)

chapter |12 pages

Richard Henry Wilde (1789-1847)

chapter |13 pages

Fitz-Greene Halleck (1790-1867)

chapter |1 pages

John Howard Payne (1791-1852)

chapter |2 pages

Lydia Huntley Sigourney (1791-1865)

chapter |6 pages

Johnneal (1793-1876)

chapter |3 pages

Carlos Wilcox (1794-1827)

chapter |53 pages

William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878)

chapter |29 pages

Maria Gowen Brooks (1794?-1845)

chapter |15 pages

Joseph Rodman Drake (1795-1820)

chapter |2 pages

James Gates Percival (1795-1856)

chapter |4 pages

George Moses Horton (1798?-1883?)

chapter |1 pages

Samuel Henry Dickson (1798-1872)

chapter |2 pages

A. Bronson Alcott (1799-1888)

chapter |15 pages

Thomas Cole (1801-1848)

chapter |8 pages

Edward Coote Pinkney (1802-1828)

chapter |1 pages

George Pope Morris (1802-1864)

chapter |2 pages

Lydia Maria Child (1802-1880)

chapter |94 pages

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

chapter |1 pages

Sarah Helen Whitman (1803-1878)

chapter |2 pages

Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)

chapter |12 pages

Nathaniel Parker Willis (1806-1867)

chapter |6 pages

William Gilmore Simms (1806-1870)

chapter |81 pages

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)

chapter |56 pages

John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892)

chapter |46 pages

Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)

chapter |4 pages

Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)

chapter |18 pages

Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894)

chapter |11 pages

Thomas Holley Chivers (1809-1858)

chapter |2 pages

Fanny Kemble (1809-1893)

chapter |1 pages

Margaret Fuller (1810-1850)

chapter |2 pages

Edmund Hamilton Sears (1810-1876)

chapter |36 pages

Christopher Pearse Cranch (1813-1892)

chapter |3 pages

Charles Timothy Brooks (1813-1883)

chapter |14 pages

Jones Very (1813-1880)

chapter |3 pages

Epes Sargent (1813-1880)

chapter |4 pages

Daniel Decatur Emmett

chapter |8 pages

Philip Pendleton Cooke (1816-1850)

chapter |2 pages

Josiah D. Canning (1816-1892)

chapter |8 pages

Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)

chapter |4 pages

Cornelius Mathews (1817-1889)

chapter |5 pages

William Ellery Channing (1818-1901)

chapter |6 pages

William Wetmore Story (1819-1895)

chapter |25 pages

James Russell Lowell (1819-1891)

chapter |3 pages

Julia Ward Howe (1819-1910)

chapter |7 pages

Josiah Gilbert Holland (1819-1881)

chapter |2 pages

Thomas Dunn English (1819-1902)

chapter |223 pages

Walt Whitman (1819-1892)

chapter |42 pages

Chronology

chapter |50 pages

Biographical Notes

chapter |8 pages

Note on the Texts

chapter |34 pages

Notes

chapter |22 pages

Index of Titles and First Lines

chapter |7 pages

Index of Poets

chapter |2 pages

Half Title

chapter |1 pages

Title Page

chapter |5 pages

Copyright Page

chapter |24 pages

Table of Contents

chapter |86 pages

Herman Melville (1819-1891)

chapter |5 pages

Henry Howard Brownell (1820-1872)

chapter |6 pages

Alice Cary (1820-1871

chapter |2 pages

John Henry Hopkins, Jr. (1820-1891)

chapter |17 pages

Frederick Goddard Tuckerman (1821-1873)

chapter |3 pages

Maria White Lowell (1821-1853)

chapter |7 pages

James Monroe Whitfield (1822-1871)

chapter |2 pages

Thomas Buchanan Read (1822-1872)

chapter |4 pages

George Henry Boker (1823-1890)

chapter |3 pages

James Mathewes Legaré (1823-1859)

chapter |10 pages

George Boyer Vashon (1824-1878)

chapter |8 pages

Charles Godfrey Leland (1824-1903)

chapter |9 pages

Phoebe Cary (1824-1871)

chapter |4 pages

Bayard Taylor (1825-1878)

chapter |4 pages

Stephen Foster (1826-1864)

chapter |2 pages

Robert Lowry (1826-1899)

chapter |3 pages

Rose Terry Cooke (1827-1892)

chapter |2 pages

Francis Miles Finch (1827-1907)

chapter |8 pages

John Rollin Ridge (1827-1867)

chapter |10 pages

John Townsend Trowbridge (1827-1916)

chapter |19 pages

Henry Timrod (1828-1867)

chapter |2 pages

Paul Hamilton Hayne (1830-1886)

chapter |5 pages

Helen Hunt Jackson (1830-1885)

chapter |90 pages

Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

chapter |4 pages

Benjamin Paul Blood (1832-1919)

chapter |2 pages

Elizabeth Akers Allen (1832-1911)

chapter |4 pages

Henry Clay Work (1832-1884)

chapter |1 pages

Edmund Clarence Stedman (1833-1908)

chapter |4 pages

John James Piatt (1835-1917)

chapter |3 pages

Augusta Cooper Bristol (1835-1910)

chapter |3 pages

Adah Isaacs Menken (1835?-1868)

chapter |1 pages

Mark Twain (1835-1910)

chapter |1 pages

Phillips Brooks (1835-1893)

chapter |9 pages

Bretharte (1836-1902)

chapter |2 pages

Sarah Morgan Piatt (1836-1919)

chapter |11 pages

William Dean Howells (1837-1920)

chapter |7 pages

Forceythe Willson (1837-1867)

chapter |8 pages

Joaquin Miller (1837-1913)

chapter |2 pages

Abram Joseph Ryan (1838-1886)

chapter |2 pages

William Reed Huntington (1838-1909)

chapter |2 pages

John Hay (1838-1905)

chapter |7 pages

Henry Adams (1838-1918)

chapter |3 pages

James Ryder Randall (1839-1908)

chapter |4 pages

Constance Fenimore Woolson (1840-1894)

chapter |4 pages

Edward Rowland Sill (1841-1887)

chapter |2 pages

Charles Edward Carryl (1841-1920)

chapter |30 pages

Sidney Lanier (1842-1881)

chapter |12 pages

Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?)

chapter |2 pages

Richard Watson Gilder (1844-1909)

chapter |4 pages

George Washington Cable (1844-1925)

chapter |5 pages

John Banister Tabb (1845-1909)

chapter |9 pages

Emma Lazarus (1849-1887)

chapter |6 pages

Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909)

chapter |5 pages

James Whitcomb Riley (1849-1916)

chapter |3 pages

Eugene Field (1850-1895)

chapter |4 pages

Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850-1919)

chapter |4 pages

Rose Hartwick Thorpe (1850-1939)

chapter |9 pages

Albery Allson Whitman (1851-1901)

chapter |4 pages

Edwin Markham (1852-1940)

chapter |15 pages

Ernest Fenollosa (1853-1908)

chapter |2 pages

James A. Bland (1854-1911)

chapter |5 pages

Lizette Woodworth Reese (1856-1935)

chapter |2 pages

Katharine Lee Bates (1859-1929)

chapter |2 pages

Clinton Scollard (1860-1932)

chapter |3 pages

Hamlin Garland (1860-1940)

chapter |1 pages

Harriet Monroe (1860-1936)

chapter |5 pages

Louise Imogen Guiney (1861-1920)

chapter |8 pages

Edith Wharton (1862-1937)

chapter |3 pages

John Jay Chapman (1862-1933)

chapter |10 pages

George Santayana (1863-1952)

chapter |2 pages

Stuart Merrill (1863-1915)

chapter |3 pages

Ernest Lawrence Thayer (1863-1940)

chapter |6 pages

Richard Hovey (1864-1900)

chapter |6 pages

Madison Cawein (1865-1914)

chapter |1 pages

Gelett Burgess (1866-1951)

chapter |12 pages

William Vaughn Moody (1869-1910)

chapter |14 pages

Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935)

chapter |10 pages

Stephen Crane (1871-1900)

chapter |17 pages

Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906)

chapter |3 pages

Alexander L. Posey (1873-1908)

chapter |5 pages

George Cabot Lodge (1873-1909)

chapter |26 pages

Trumbull Stickney (1874-1904)

chapter |70 pages

Folk Songs and Spirituals

chapter |42 pages

Chronology

chapter |76 pages

Biographical Notes

chapter |15 pages

Note on the Texts