A History of American Literature
Inventing Americas: 1800–1865 187 How it is seen, what it is seen as being and meaning, depend entirely on who is seeing it. Thr ...
188 Inventing Americas: 1800–1865 Christmas Day, initiating the first in a series of references to the story of Christ. Yet the ...
Inventing Americas: 1800–1865 189 of Ahab measures the gap between them: one has opted for a safety that shades into surrender, ...
190 Inventing Americas: 1800–1865 John Marr and Other Sailors (1888) and Timoleon (1891). In his shorter poems, published here a ...
Inventing Americas: 1800–1865 191 life in a new country,” Kirkland begins by admitting that she has “never seen a cougar – nor b ...
192 Inventing Americas: 1800–1865 (1845); she became an active editor, and her home in New York City, to which she returned from ...
Inventing Americas: 1800–1865 193 well: poetry, short fiction, and, from 1854 to 1858, a regular column for the Daily Alta Calif ...
194 Inventing Americas: 1800–1865 Cassandra is far more self-confident and sexually emancipated than any sentimental heroine or ...
Inventing Americas: 1800–1865 195 Rebecca Harding Davis declared that it was her purpose “to dig into the commonplace, this vulg ...
196 Inventing Americas: 1800–1865 a morally responsible life. Davis went on to write many more fictions that pursue a similarly ...
Inventing Americas: 1800–1865 197 world, / Troubles of the world, troubles of the world,” announces another spiritual, “No more ...
198 Inventing Americas: 1800–1865 Pike, / Who crossed the wide prairies with her lover Ike,” begins one version of “Sweet Betty ...
Inventing Americas: 1800–1865 199 even more captivating in their rhythms and repetitions. A “play-party song” such as “Cindy,” f ...
200 Inventing Americas: 1800–1865 (1838), for example, explores the irony of a “red-brow’d chieftain” welcoming those who would ...
Inventing Americas: 1800–1865 201 lover comes on a brief visit long after their love affair has ended. “I wish I’d kept that las ...
202 Inventing Americas: 1800–1865 For many contemporary readers, the leading American poet of the earlier half of the nineteenth ...
Inventing Americas: 1800–1865 203 written by the time he was 40, and published in two volumes, titled simply Poems, appearing in ...
204 Inventing Americas: 1800–1865 As the blood of all nations is mingled with our own, so will their thoughts and feelings final ...
Inventing Americas: 1800–1865 205 Like Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809–1894) chose to identify with a particular group. ...
206 Inventing Americas: 1800–1865 life is hidden from nearly every gaze apart from the divine – and those blessed with some micr ...
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