A Library of American Literature
Title | A Library of American Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Edmund C. And Hutchinson Ellen Stedman |
Publisher | Hardpress Publishing |
Total Pages | 564 |
Release | 2012-01 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781290218566 |
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A Bibliographical Description of Books and Pamphlets of American Verse Printed from 1610 Through 1820
Title | A Bibliographical Description of Books and Pamphlets of American Verse Printed from 1610 Through 1820 PDF eBook |
Author | Roger Eliot Stoddard |
Publisher | Penn State Press |
Total Pages | 833 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 027105221X |
"A bibliography of poetry composed in what is now the United States of America and printed in the form of books or pamphlets before 1821"--Provided by publisher.
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
Title | A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers PDF eBook |
Author | Henry David Thoreau |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 430 |
Release | 1873 |
Genre | Concord River |
ISBN |
James Agee: Let Us Now Praise Famous Men / A Death in the Family / Shorter Fiction (LOA #159)
Title | James Agee: Let Us Now Praise Famous Men / A Death in the Family / Shorter Fiction (LOA #159) PDF eBook |
Author | James Agee |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 920 |
Release | 2005-09-22 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN |
Contains nonfiction work such as Let Us Now Praise Famous Men along with the Pulitzer Prize winning novel A Death In The Family and other fictional material.
American Protest Literature
Title | American Protest Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Zoe Trodd |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | 572 |
Release | 2008-04-03 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0674267834 |
“I like a little rebellion now and then”—so wrote Thomas Jefferson to Abigail Adams, enlisting in a tradition that throughout American history has led writers to rage and reason, prophesy and provoke. This is the first anthology to collect and examine an American literature that holds the nation to its highest ideals, castigating it when it falls short and pointing the way to a better collective future.American Protest Literature presents sources from eleven protest movements—political, social, and cultural—from the Revolution to abolition to gay rights to antiwar protest. Each section reprints documents from the original phase of the movement as well as evidence of its legacy in later times. Informative headnotes place the selections in historical context and draw connections with other writings within the anthology and beyond. Sources include a wide variety of genres—pamphlets, letters, speeches, sermons, legal documents, poems, short stories, photographs, posters—and a range of voices from prophetic to outraged to sorrowful, from U.S. Presidents to the disenfranchised. Together they provide an enlightening and inspiring survey of this most American form of literature.
A Library of American Literature
Title | A Library of American Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Edmund Clarence Stedman |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | |
Release | 1973 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780841479579 |
The Heart of American Poetry
Title | The Heart of American Poetry PDF eBook |
Author | Edward Hirsch |
Publisher | Library of America |
Total Pages | 367 |
Release | 2022-04-19 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 159853727X |
An acclaimed poet and our greatest champion for poetry offers an inspiring and insightful new reading of the American tradition We live in unsettled times. What is America and who are we as a people? How do we understand the dreams and betrayals that have shaped the American experience? For poet and critic Edward Hirsch, poetry opens up new ways of answering these questions, of reconnecting with one another and with what’s best in us. In this landmark new book from Library of America, Hirsch offers deeply personal readings of forty essential American poems we thought we knew—from Anne Bradstreet’s “The Author to Her Book” and Phillis Wheatley’s “To S.M. a Young African Painter, on seeing his Works” to Garrett Hongo’s “Ancestral Graves, Kahuku” and Joy Harjo’s “Rabbit Is Up to Tricks”—exploring how these poems have sustained his own life and how they might uplift our diverse but divided nation. “This is a personal book about American poetry,” writes Hirsch, “but I hope it is more than a personal selection. I have chosen forty poems from our extensive archive and songbook that have been meaningful to me, part of my affective life, my critical consideration, but I have also tried to be cognizant of the changing playbook in American poetry, which is not fixed but fluctuating, ever in flow, to pay attention to the wider consideration, the appreciable reach of our literature. This is a book of encounters and realizations.”