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Title Whitman's & Dickinson's contemporaries : an anthology of their verse / edited, and with an introduction by Robert Bain
Published Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, ©1996

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Description 1 online resource (xxxiv, 555 pages)
Contents Lydia Huntley Sigourney: (1791-1865) / Wilson Somerville. Death of an Infant. Hebrew Dirge. The Indian's Welcome to the Pilgrim Fathers. The Early Blue-Bird. Monody on Mrs. Hemans. To a Shred of Linen -- William Cullen Bryant: (1794-1878) / Glenn Blalock. Thanatopsis. To a Waterfowl. The Prairies. The Poet. The Death of Lincoln. from The Flood of Years -- George Moses Horton: (1797?-1883?) / Paul Crumbley. On Liberty and Slavery. Division of an Estate. George Moses Horton, Myself. The Obstructions of Genius. The Art of a Poet. The Spectator of the Battle of Belmont, November 6, 1863. Lincoln Is Dead. Peace at Home -- Sarah Helen Whitman: (1803-1878) / Lisa Carl. from Sonnets: To Elizabeth Barrett Browning. from Sonnets: To .̲̲̲̲ Night Wanes. from Christmas Eve. The Portrait. Science -- Ralph Waldo Emerson: (1803-1882) / Robert Bain. Each and All. Hamatreya. The Rhodora. The Snow-Storm. Ode Inscribed to W.H. Channing. Merlin. Bacchus. Concord Hymn. Brahma. Days
Summary Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson were not the poetic stars of their day; Whitman's following was minuscule, if influential, and only a few friends knew that Dickinson wrote poetry. But the contemporaries who eclipsed these major poets now have largely disappeared from our literary landscape. In this distinctive anthology, Robert Bain gathers together thirteen other scholars to re-present the poetry of these former luminaries, allowing readers to rediscover them, reconstruct the poetic contexts of their age, and better understand why Whitman and Dickinson now overshadow other poets of their time. Arranged chronologically according to the birth dates of the poets, this anthology introduces each poet's work, providing biographical information and discussing the major forms and themes of the work. Each introduction places the poet in a literary and historical context with Whitman and Dickinson and provides a bibliography of secondary sources
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
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Subject Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 -- Contemporaries
Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886 -- Contemporaries
SUBJECT Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886 fast
Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 fast
Subject American poetry -- 19th century.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Poetry.
American poetry
Contemporaries
Form Electronic book
Author Bain, Robert (Robert A.)
LC no. 95009867
ISBN 0585031436
9780585031439
Other Titles Whitman's and Dickinson's contemporaries