{"product_id":"american-poetry-john-hollander-9780940450608","title":"American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century Vol. 1 (Loa #66): Freneau to Whitman","description":"In nineteenth-century America, poetry was an integral part of everyday life. The two volumes of The Library of America's \u003ci\u003eAmerican Poetry: The Nineteenth Century\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eExtending 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWoven 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eUnprecedented 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eLIBRARY OF AMERICA\u003c\/b\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e John Hollander, Various\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0940450607\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780940450608\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Library of America\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/01\/1993\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 1099\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.61lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.12h x 5.26w x 1.48d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/15\/1993 pg. 413\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/15\/1999 pg. 1275\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/01\/1993","brand":"John Hollander","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43926850732287,"sku":"9780940450608","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_d7b619f8-80dd-4346-b386-e985e43a5337.jpg?v=1681085364","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/american-poetry-john-hollander-9780940450608","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}