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Book Synopsis American Poetry: The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (LOA #178) by : David Sheilds
Download or read book American Poetry: The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (LOA #178) written by David Sheilds and published by . This book was released on 2007-10-18 with total page 1000 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a collection of early American poetry in a tribute to the diversity and range of poetic traditions from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and includes regional music ballads and Native American translations.
Book Synopsis American Poetry of the Seventeenth Century by : Harrison T. Meserole
Download or read book American Poetry of the Seventeenth Century written by Harrison T. Meserole and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis H. P. Lovecraft: Tales (LOA #155) by : H. P. Lovecraft
Download or read book H. P. Lovecraft: Tales (LOA #155) written by H. P. Lovecraft and published by Library of America. This book was released on 2005-02-03 with total page 1178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An extensive collection of H.P. Lovecraft’s greatest works of horror and dread, from his early stories to his major classics like “The Call of Cthulhu,” “The Shadow Over Innsmouth,” and At the Mountains of Madness In this Library of America volume, the best-selling novelist Peter Straub brings together the very best of H. P. Lovecraft's fiction in a treasury guaranteed to bring fright and delight both to longtime fans and to readers new to his work. Early stories such as “The Outsider,” “The Music of Erich Zann,” “Herbert West–Reanimator,” and “The Lurking Fear” demonstrate Lovecraft's uncanny ability to blur the distinction between reality and nightmare, sanity and madness, the human and non-human. “The Horror at Red Hook” and “He” reveal the fascination and revulsion Lovecraft felt for New York City; “Pickman's Model” uncovers the frightening secret behind an artist's work; “The Rats in the Walls” is a terrifying descent into atavistic horror; and “The Colour Out of Space” explores the eerie impact of a meteorite on a remote Massachusetts valley. In such later works as “The Call of Cthulhu,” “The Whisperer in Darkness,” “At the Mountains of Madness,” “The Shadow Over Innsmouth,” and “The Shadow Out of Time,” Lovecraft developed his own nightmarish mythology in which encounters with ancient, pitiless extraterrestrial intelligences wreak havoc on hapless humans who only gradually begin to glimpse “terrifying vistas of reality, and our frightful position therein.” Moving from old New England towns haunted by occult pasts to Antarctic wastes that disclose appalling secrets, Lovecraft's tales continue to exert a dread fascination. LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation’s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America’s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.
Book Synopsis Early American Poetry by : Oscar Wegelin
Download or read book Early American Poetry written by Oscar Wegelin and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Seventeenth-century American Poetry by : Harrison T. Meserole
Download or read book Seventeenth-century American Poetry written by Harrison T. Meserole and published by W. W. Norton. This book was released on 1972 with total page 541 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Early American Poetry by : Oscar Wegelin
Download or read book Early American Poetry written by Oscar Wegelin and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-12 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Early American Poetry: A Compilation of the Titles of Volumes of Verse and Broadsides, Written by Writers Born or Residing in North America, and Issued During the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries The early poetry of America should be divided into three distinct Classes, the Religious, the Patriotic and the Eu morons. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Book Synopsis Early American Poetry, 1800-1820 by : Oscar Wegelin
Download or read book Early American Poetry, 1800-1820 written by Oscar Wegelin and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-01-25 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Early American Poetry, 1800-1820: With an Appendix Containing the Titles of Volumes and Broadsides Issued During the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, Which Were Omitted, in the Volume Containing the Years 1650-1799 This volume concludes my work on the bibliography of the early poetry of North America. Although much interesting material was published in the de cade following, the lateness of the period really bars it from being classed as early. So many titles could be unearthed in the period covered by the years 1821-1840 that a volume considerably larger than the present would be the result and little of interest from an antiquarian standpoint would result therefrom. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Book Synopsis Thomas Paine: Collected Writings (LOA #76) by : Thomas Paine
Download or read book Thomas Paine: Collected Writings (LOA #76) written by Thomas Paine and published by Library of America. This book was released on 1995-03-01 with total page 944 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Paine was the impassioned democratic voice of the Age of Revolution, and this volume brings together his best-known works: Common Sense, The American Crisis, Rights of Man, The Age of Reason, along with a selection of letters, articles and pamphlets that emphasizes Paine's American years. “I know not whether any man in the world,” wrote John Adams in 1805, “has had more influence on its inhabitants or affairs for the last thirty years than Tom Paine.” The impassioned democratic voice of the Age of Revolution, Paine wrote for his mass audience with vigor, clarity, and “common sense.” This Library of America volume is the first major new edition of his work in 50 years, and the most comprehensive single-volume collection of his writings available. Paine came to America in 1774 at age 37 after a life of obscurity and failure in England. Within fourteen months he published Common Sense, the most influential pamphlet for the American Revolution, and began a career that would see him prosecuted in England, imprisoned and nearly executed in France, and hailed and reviled in the American nation he helped create. In Common Sense, Paine set forth an inspiring vision of an independent America as an asylum for freedom and an example of popular self-government in a world oppressed by despotism and hereditary privilege. The American Crisis, begun during “the times that try men’s souls” in 1776, is a masterpiece of popular pamphleteering in which Paine vividly reports current developments, taunts and ridicules British adversaries, and enjoins his readers to remember the immense stakes of their struggle. Among the many other items included in the volume are the combative “Forester” letters, written in a reply to a Tory critic of Common Sense, and several pieces concerning the French Revolution, including an incisive argument against executing Louis XVI. Rights of Man (1791–1792), written in response to Edmund Burke’s attacks on the French Revolution, is a bold vision of an egalitarian society founded on natural rights and unbound by tradition. Paine’s detailed proposal for government assistance to the poor inspired generations of subsequent radicals and reformers. The Age of Reason (1794–1795), Paine’s most controversial work, is an unrestrained assault on the authority of the Bible and a fervent defense of the benevolent God of deism. Included in this volume are a detailed chronology of Paine’s life, informative notes, an essay on the complex printing history of Paine’s work, and an index. LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation’s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America’s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.
Book Synopsis James Thurber: Writings & Drawings (LOA #90) by : James Thurber
Download or read book James Thurber: Writings & Drawings (LOA #90) written by James Thurber and published by Library of America. This book was released on 1996-10-01 with total page 1024 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Thurber, whimsical fantasist and deadpan chronicler of everyday absurdities, brought American humor into the 20th century. His comic persona, a modern citydweller whose zaniest flights of free association are tinged with anxiety, remains hilarious, subtly disturbing, and instantly recognizable. Here, in over 1000 pages, editor Garrison Keillor presents the best and most extensive collection ever assembled. Over 100 pieces include “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” and “The Catbird Seat,” the brilliantly satirical Fables for Our Time, the classic My Life and Hard Times, and the best of The Owl in the Attic, Let Your Mind Alone!, My World—And Welcome to It, and the other famous books. Plus 500 wonderful drawings, including The Seal in the Bedroom and celebrated sequences like “The Masculine Approach” and “The War Between Men and Women.” Rounding out the volume is a selection from The Years with Ross, a memoir of the New Yorker publisher, and a number of wonderful early pieces never collected by Thurber. LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation’s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America’s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.
Book Synopsis Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings Vol. 2 1859-1865 (LOA #46) by : Abraham Lincoln
Download or read book Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings Vol. 2 1859-1865 (LOA #46) written by Abraham Lincoln and published by Library of America. This book was released on 1989-10-01 with total page 844 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abraham Lincoln was the greatest writer of the Civil War as well as its greatest political leader. His clear, beautiful, and at times uncompromisingly severe language forever shaped the nation’s understanding of its most terrible conflict. This volume, along with its companion, Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1832–1858, comprises the most comprehensive selection ever published. Over 550 speeches, messages, proclamations, letters, and other writings—including the Inaugural and Gettysburg addresses and the moving condolence letter to Mrs. Bixby—record the words and deeds with which Lincoln defended, preserved, and redefined the Union.
Book Synopsis Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, & Memoirs (LOA #219) by : Ambrose Bierce
Download or read book Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, & Memoirs (LOA #219) written by Ambrose Bierce and published by Library of America. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 1157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A veteran of some of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War, Ambrose Bierce went on to become one of the darkest and most death haunted of American writers, the blackest of black humorists. This volume gathers the most celebrated and significant of Bierce's writings. In the Midst of Life (Tales of Soldiers and Civilians), his collection of short fiction about the Civil War, which includes the masterpieces "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" and "Chickamauga," is suffused with a fiercely ironic sense of the horror and randomness of war. Can Such Things Be? brings together "The Death of Halpin Frayser," "The Damned Thing," "The Moonlit Road," and other tales of terror that make Bierce the genre's most significant American practitioner between Poe and Lovecraft. The Devil's Dictionary, the brilliant lexicon of subversively cynical definitions on which Bierce worked for decades, displays to the full his corrosive wit. In Bits of Autobiography, the series of memoirs that includes the memorable "What I Saw of Shiloh," he recreates his experiences in the war and its aftermath. The volume is rounded out with a selection of his best uncollected stories. Acclaimed Bierce scholar S. T. Joshi provides detailed notes and a newly researched chronology of Bierce's life and mysterious disappearance. LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation’s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America’s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.
Book Synopsis Ring Lardner: Stories & Other Writings (LOA #244) by : Ring Lardner
Download or read book Ring Lardner: Stories & Other Writings (LOA #244) written by Ring Lardner and published by Library of America. This book was released on 2013-08-29 with total page 1354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the height of the Jazz Age, Ring Lardner was America’s most beloved humorist, equally admired by a popular audience and by literary friends like F. Scott Fitzgerald and Edmund Wilson. A sports writer who became a sensation with his comic baseball bestseller, You Know Me Al, Lardner had a rare gift for inspired nonsense and an ear attuned to the rhythms and hilarious oddities of American speech. He was also a sharp and dispassionate observer of the American scene. His best stories—among them such masterpieces as “Haircut,” “The Golden Honeymoon,” “A Caddy’s Diary,” and “The Love Nest”—cast a devastating eye on the hypocrisies, prejudices, and petty scheming of everyday life. In this Library of America edition, editor Ian Frazier surveys the whole sweep of Lardner’s talents, offering contemporary readers his finest stories, the full texts of You Know Me Al, The Big Town, and the long out-of-print The Real Dope, and a generous sampling of his humor pieces, sports reporting, song lyrics, and surrealist playlets. LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation’s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America’s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.
Book Synopsis James Fenimore Cooper: The Leatherstocking Tales Vol. 2 (LOA #27) by : James Fenimore Cooper
Download or read book James Fenimore Cooper: The Leatherstocking Tales Vol. 2 (LOA #27) written by James Fenimore Cooper and published by Library of America. This book was released on 1985-07-01 with total page 1106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Cooper's most memorable hero, Leatherstocking, started an American tradition by setting off into the sunset in The Pioneers, one early reader said of his departure, "I longed to go with him." American readers couldn't get enough of the Leatherstocking saga (collected in two Library of America volumes) and, fourteen years after he portrayed the death of Natty Bumppo in The Prairie, Cooper brought him back in The Pathfinder, or The Inland Sea (1841). During the Seven Years War, just after the events narrated in The Last of the Mohicans, Natty brings the daughter of a British sergeant to her father's station on the Great Lakes, where the French and their Indian allies are plotting a treacherous ambush. Here, for the first time, he falls in love with a woman, before Cooper manages bring off Leatherstocking's most poignant, and perhaps his most revealing, escape. The Deerslayer (1842) brings the saga full circle and follows the young Natty on his first warpath. Instinctively gifted in the arts of the forest, pious in his respect for the unspoiled wilderness on which he loves to gaze, honorable to friend and foe alike, stoic under torture, and cool under fire, the young Leatherstocking emerges as Cooper's noblest figure of the American frontier. Enacting a rite of passage both for its hero and for the culture he comes to represent, this last book in the series glows with a timelessness that readers everywhere will find enchanting. LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation’s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America’s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.
Book Synopsis American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century Vol. 1 (LOA #66) by : Various
Download or read book American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century Vol. 1 (LOA #66) written by Various and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 1993-10-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In nineteenth-century America, poetry was an integral part of everyday life. The two volumes of The Library of America’s American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century reveal the vigor and diversity of a tradition embracing solitary visionaries and congenial storytellers, humorists and dissidents, songwriters and philosophers. These extraordinary anthologies reassess America’s poetic legacy with a comprehensive sweep that no previous anthology has attempted. Extending chronologically from the classic couplets of Philip Freneau to the pioneering free verse of Walt Whitman, this first volume charts the formation of a distinctly American poetry. Here, in generous selections, are the major figures: Poe, Emerson, Bryant, Longfellow, Whittier—as well as such unexpected contributors as the landscape painter Thomas Cole, the actress Fanny Kemble, and the presidents John Quincy Adams and Abraham Lincoln. This collection offers the unique opportunity to appreciate anew such classics as Whittier’s “Snow-Bound,” Bryant’s “Forest Hymn,” and Emerson’s “Hamatreya,” while discovering a world of less familiar pleasures: the mystical sonnets of Jones Very, the Romantic fantasias of Maria Gowen Brooks, the stirring political poems of Joel Barlow and John Pierpont, and the somber and undervalued late lyrics of Longfellow. Woven among the poetry of the early nineteenth century is a wealth of popular ballads, recitations, and songs both secular and religious: “Home, Sweet Home,” “A Visit from St. Nicholas,” “It Came Upon the Midnight Clear,” “Battle Hymn of the Republic.” From Lydia Maria Child’s Thanksgiving poem (“Over the river and through the wood”) to George Pope Morris’s “The Oak” (“Woodman, spare that tree!”), these pages ring with the phrases that have become part of the national memory. Unprecedented in its textual authority, the anthology includes newly researched biographical sketches of each poet, a year-by-year chronology of poets and poetry from 1800 to 1900, and extensive notes. LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation’s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America’s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.
Book Synopsis American Broadside Verse from Imprints of the 17th & 18th Centuries by : Ola Elizabeth Winslow
Download or read book American Broadside Verse from Imprints of the 17th & 18th Centuries written by Ola Elizabeth Winslow and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Katherine Anne Porter: Collected Stories & Other Writings by : Katherine Anne Porter
Download or read book Katherine Anne Porter: Collected Stories & Other Writings written by Katherine Anne Porter and published by Library of America. This book was released on 2008-09-18 with total page 1100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eudora Welty said that Katherine Anne Porter ?writes stories with a power that stamps them to their very last detail on the memory.? Set in her native Texas and her beloved Mexico, prewar Nazi Germany and the gothic Old South, they are stories of love, outrage, betrayal, and spiritual reckoning that are severe but never cruel, and always exquisitely precise. They number fewer than thirty, but as Robert Penn Warren commented, ?many are unsurpassed in modern fiction,? and when gathered in one volume in 1965 they won their author both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. The Library of America now reprints that landmark volume, The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter, and pairs it with a completely new selection from Porter?s long-out-of-print short prose. Expanding the contents of her 1952 collection The Days Before to include both early journalism and major pieces from her final three decades, the prose works collected here are grouped in four parts: critical essays on writers she loved and learned from, including James, Cather, Lawrence, and Colette; personal essays and speeches on such topics as the craft of writing, her own work, women in myth and in history, and American politics; essays and reports on Mexican life, letters, and revolution; and two previously uncollected forays into autobiography.
Book Synopsis Seventeenth-century American Poetry by : William J. Scheick
Download or read book Seventeenth-century American Poetry written by William J. Scheick and published by Hall Reference Books. This book was released on 1977 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Table of contents: Xii. Byrd, William (1674-1744) 57 Xii. Byrd, William (1674-1744) 61 Xii. Byrd, William (1674-1744) 61 Xii. Byrd, William (1674-1744) 62 Xii. Byrd, William (1674-1744) 66 Xii. Byrd, William (1674-1744) 67 --Xviii. Cotton, Seaborn (1633-1686) 70 --Xix. Danforth, John (1660-1730) 70 --Xix. Danforth, John (1660-1730) 71 --Xxi. Danforth, Samuel II (1666-1727) 72 --Xxii. Elegies 72 XXI Elegies 75 --Xxiv. Fiske, John (1608-1677) 76 --Xxv. Folger, Peter (1617-1690) 76 --Xxvi. Gookin, Daniel (1650-1718) 77 --Xxvii. Harris, Benjamin (c. 1640-1720) 77 --Xxvii. Harris, Benjamin (c. 1640-1720) 78 --Xxvii. Harris, Benjamin (c. 1640-1720) 79 --Xxvii. Harris, Benjamin (c. 1640-1720) 79 --Xxvii. Harris, Benjamin (c. 1640-1720) 80 --Xxvii. Harris, Benjamin (c. 1640-1720) 81 --Xxvii. Harris, Benjamin (c. 1640-1720) 82 --Xxvii. Harris, Benjamin (c. 1640-1720) 83 --Xxvii. Harris, Benjamin (c. 1640-1720) 83 --Xxxvi. Morris, Lewis (1671-1746) 84 --Xxxvii. Morton, Nathaniel (1613-1686) 84 --Xxxviii. Morton, Thomas (1590?-1647) 84 --Xxxix. Moxon, George (1602-1687) 86 --Xl. Nicholson, Francis (c. 1657-1728) 86 --Xli. Norton, John (1651-1716) 86 --Xlii. Noyes, Nicholas (1647-1717) 87 --Xliii. Oakes, Urian (1631-1681) 87 --Xliii. Oakes, Urian (1631-1681) 89 --Xliii. Oakes, Urian (1631-1681) 90 --Xlvi. Rogers, John (1630-1684) 92 --Xlvii. Saffin, John (1626-1710) 92 --Xlvii. Saffin, John (1626-1710) 94 --Xlvii. Saffin, John (1626-1710) 100 --Xlvii. Saffin, John (1626-1710) 102 --Xlvii. Saffin, John (1626-1710) 103 --Xlvii. Saffin, John (1626-1710) 103 --Liii. Stirk, George (1628?-1665) 104 --Liv. Strachey, William (1572-1621) 104 --Lv. Taylor, Edward (c. 1642-1729) 105 --Lvi. Tillam, Thomas (16??-After 1668) 158 --Lvii. Tompson, Benjamin (1642-1714) 159 --Lviii. Walter, Nehemiah (1663-1750) 161 --Lix. Ward, Nathaniel (1578-1652) 161 --Lix. Ward, Nathaniel (1578-1652) 163 --Lix. Ward, Nathaniel (1578-1652) 169 --Lix. Ward, Nathaniel (1578-1652) 170 --Lix. Ward, Nathaniel (1578-1652) 171 --Lxiv. Wood, William (1606-After 1637) 173 --Abbreviations for Index 175 --Index of Authors, Poets, and Selected Topics.
