The long agony of the American Civil War inspired a wealth of contemporary verse — from sentimental doggerel to sublime lyrics that rank among the finest American poetry. This inexpensive anthology brings together a superb selection of poems from both North and South, comprising the best and most representative poetry of those turbulent times. Over 75 poems include works by many of America's greatest 19th century writers: Walt Whitman, Herman Melville, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, John Greenleaf Whittier, William Cullen Bryant, and many more. Also included ... Read More
The long agony of the American Civil War inspired a wealth of contemporary verse — from sentimental doggerel to sublime lyrics that rank among the finest American poetry. This inexpensive anthology brings together a superb selection of poems from both North and South, comprising the best and most representative poetry of those turbulent times. Over 75 poems include works by many of America's greatest 19th century writers: Walt Whitman, Herman Melville, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, John Greenleaf Whittier, William Cullen Bryant, and many more. Also included ... Read More
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The long agony of the American Civil War inspired a wealth of contemporary verse — from sentimental doggerel to sublime lyrics that rank among the finest American poetry. This inexpensive anthology brings together a superb selection of poems from both North and South, comprising the best and most representative poetry of those turbulent times. Over 75 poems include works by many of America's greatest 19th century writers: Walt Whitman, Herman Melville, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, John Greenleaf Whittier, William Cullen Bryant, and many more. Also included are many fine poems by lesser-known poets of the period: Julia Ward Howe, Henry Timrod, Edwin Markham, Edmund Clarence Stedman, Francis Miles Finch, George Henry Boker, and more. Among the selections in this volume: Julia Ward Howe's "Battle Hymn of the Republic," Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Boston Hymn," John Greenleaf Whittier's "Barbara Frietchie," "The Death of Slavery," by William Cullen Bryant, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's "Killed at the Ford," Henry Howard Brownell's "The Bay Flight," "All Quiet Along the Potomac Tonight" by Ethel Lynn Beers, "O Captain! My Captain!" and "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd" by Walt Whitman, and many more. Ranging from boisterous calls to arms to poignant memorials for the slain, these poems reflect the heroism, horror, exaltation, and anguish of the bloodiest and most crucial conflict in the nation's history. Anyone interested in the Civil War or American literature of the period will want this collection on their bookshelves.
Dover Original.
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Price: $1.99
Pages: 128
Publisher: Dover Publications
Imprint: Dover Publications
Series: Dover Thrift Editions: Poetry
Publication Date: 10th May 2012
Trim Size: 5.18 x 8.25 in
ISBN: 9780486112176
Format: eBook
Age: 14-99
BISACs: HISTORY / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877) POETRY / American / General POETRY / Subjects & Themes / General POETRY / Anthologies (multiple authors)
Table of Contents
JULIA WARD HOWE Battle Hymn of the Republic Pardon Robert E. Lee HENRY TIMROD Ethnogenesis Charleston A Cry to Arms Carolina Ode at Magnolia Cemetery JAMES SLOAN GIBBONS Three Hundred Thousand More JAMES RYDER RANDALL My Maryland RALPH WALDO EMERSON Boston Hymn JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Brown of Ossawatomie A Word for the Hour The Battle Autumn of 1862 "Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott" Laus Deo! Barbara Frietchie WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT The Death of Slavery Abraham Lincoln ETHEL LYNN BEERS "All Quiet Along the Potomac" SIDNEY LANIER The Dying Words of Stonewall Jackson THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Fredericksburg By the Potomac FRANCIS ORRERY TICKNOR Little Giffen A Battle Ballad The Virginians of the Valley "Our Left" HERMAN MELVILLE The Portent The March into Virginia Ball's Bluff Shiloh Malvern Hill Stonewall Jackson A Dirge for McPherson Sheridan at Cedar Creek "Formerly a Slave" Rebel Color-bearers at Shiloh On the Slain at Chickamauga The Surrender at Appomattox JAMES JEFFREY ROCHE Gettysburg WILL HENRY THOMPSON The High Tide at Gettysburg LLOYD MIFFLIN The Battlefield EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN Sumter Kearny at Seven Pines MADISON CAWEIN Mosby at Hamilton JOHN REUBEN THOMPSON Lee to the Rear HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Killed at the Ford The Cumberland HENRY HOWARD BROWNELL The Bay Fight GEORGE HENRY BOKER Dirge for a Soldier FRANCIS MILES FINCH The Blue and the Gray EDWIN MARKHAM "Lincoln, the Man of the People" AMBROSE BIERCE The Hesitating Veteran The Death of Grant BRET HARTE The Reveille A Second Review of the Grand Army WALT WHITMAN Beat! Beat! Drums! Cavalry Crossing a Ford Bivouac on a Mountain Side An Army Corps on the March Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night "A March in the Ranks Hard-Prest, and the Road Unknown" A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray and Dim The Wound-Dresser The Artilleryman's Vision To a Certain Civilian O Captain! My Captain! When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN The Conquered Banner JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL "Ode Recited at the Harvard Commemoration, July 21, 1865" KATE PUTNAM OSGOOD Driving Home the Cows
The long agony of the American Civil War inspired a wealth of contemporary verse — from sentimental doggerel to sublime lyrics that rank among the finest American poetry. This inexpensive anthology brings together a superb selection of poems from both North and South, comprising the best and most representative poetry of those turbulent times. Over 75 poems include works by many of America's greatest 19th century writers: Walt Whitman, Herman Melville, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, John Greenleaf Whittier, William Cullen Bryant, and many more. Also included are many fine poems by lesser-known poets of the period: Julia Ward Howe, Henry Timrod, Edwin Markham, Edmund Clarence Stedman, Francis Miles Finch, George Henry Boker, and more. Among the selections in this volume: Julia Ward Howe's "Battle Hymn of the Republic," Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Boston Hymn," John Greenleaf Whittier's "Barbara Frietchie," "The Death of Slavery," by William Cullen Bryant, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's "Killed at the Ford," Henry Howard Brownell's "The Bay Flight," "All Quiet Along the Potomac Tonight" by Ethel Lynn Beers, "O Captain! My Captain!" and "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd" by Walt Whitman, and many more. Ranging from boisterous calls to arms to poignant memorials for the slain, these poems reflect the heroism, horror, exaltation, and anguish of the bloodiest and most crucial conflict in the nation's history. Anyone interested in the Civil War or American literature of the period will want this collection on their bookshelves.
Dover Original.
Price: $1.99
Pages: 128
Publisher: Dover Publications
Imprint: Dover Publications
Series: Dover Thrift Editions: Poetry
Publication Date: 10th May 2012
Trim Size: 5.18 x 8.25 in
ISBN: 9780486112176
Format: eBook
Age: 14-99
BISACs: HISTORY / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877) POETRY / American / General POETRY / Subjects & Themes / General POETRY / Anthologies (multiple authors)
JULIA WARD HOWE Battle Hymn of the Republic Pardon Robert E. Lee HENRY TIMROD Ethnogenesis Charleston A Cry to Arms Carolina Ode at Magnolia Cemetery JAMES SLOAN GIBBONS Three Hundred Thousand More JAMES RYDER RANDALL My Maryland RALPH WALDO EMERSON Boston Hymn JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Brown of Ossawatomie A Word for the Hour The Battle Autumn of 1862 "Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott" Laus Deo! Barbara Frietchie WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT The Death of Slavery Abraham Lincoln ETHEL LYNN BEERS "All Quiet Along the Potomac" SIDNEY LANIER The Dying Words of Stonewall Jackson THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Fredericksburg By the Potomac FRANCIS ORRERY TICKNOR Little Giffen A Battle Ballad The Virginians of the Valley "Our Left" HERMAN MELVILLE The Portent The March into Virginia Ball's Bluff Shiloh Malvern Hill Stonewall Jackson A Dirge for McPherson Sheridan at Cedar Creek "Formerly a Slave" Rebel Color-bearers at Shiloh On the Slain at Chickamauga The Surrender at Appomattox JAMES JEFFREY ROCHE Gettysburg WILL HENRY THOMPSON The High Tide at Gettysburg LLOYD MIFFLIN The Battlefield EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN Sumter Kearny at Seven Pines MADISON CAWEIN Mosby at Hamilton JOHN REUBEN THOMPSON Lee to the Rear HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Killed at the Ford The Cumberland HENRY HOWARD BROWNELL The Bay Fight GEORGE HENRY BOKER Dirge for a Soldier FRANCIS MILES FINCH The Blue and the Gray EDWIN MARKHAM "Lincoln, the Man of the People" AMBROSE BIERCE The Hesitating Veteran The Death of Grant BRET HARTE The Reveille A Second Review of the Grand Army WALT WHITMAN Beat! Beat! Drums! Cavalry Crossing a Ford Bivouac on a Mountain Side An Army Corps on the March Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night "A March in the Ranks Hard-Prest, and the Road Unknown" A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray and Dim The Wound-Dresser The Artilleryman's Vision To a Certain Civilian O Captain! My Captain! When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN The Conquered Banner JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL "Ode Recited at the Harvard Commemoration, July 21, 1865" KATE PUTNAM OSGOOD Driving Home the Cows
