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...Walt Whitman (1819-1892) is widely considered to be the greatest and most influential of all American poets. LEAVES OF GRASS, Whitman's sole book published at his own expense, represents almost the entirety of his poetical output. The first edition of LEAVES OF GRASS, which he would continue to revise over the course...

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...trice Me Imperturbe Savantism The Ship Starting I Hear America Singing What Place Is Besieged Still though the One I Sing Shut Not Your Doors Poets to Come To You Thou Reader STARTING FROM PAUMANOK SONG OF MYSELF CHILDREN OF ADAM To the Garden the World From Pent-Up Aching Rivers I Sing the Body Electric A Woman Waits for Me Spontaneous Me One Hour to Ma...

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...This work is about a Korean American teaching in his homeland, feeling lost in Korean culture and that his own life is an outlier to this conservative society. As he lives there, making his living as an English teacher, he writes of Gabriele, a single ...

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...world's biggest dummy. Sang Huin gave his typical defense of "Miguk sarem" ("American") which would bring on a confused and critical look--in this cas... ...rica, and so existing as a Korean only by birth and race definitely made him American in every way but a legal one. Most persons under such a scenario... ...ere two sides of the same coin. He loved his mother and she was alone on the American continent as he was in Asia. They were indeed alone in the world... ...mething to him in Korean. "Miguk Sarem imnidad" responded Sang Huin (I am an American). Sung Ki, accompanied by a high school friend, took him to eat ... ...America. Occasionally Korean women also got his attention but not as much as American women. He had trouble believing that such predilections were a s... ...had found a more internal brooding in the Hokkaido cold. She had feasted on poets and philosophers. She had learnt of Japanese history, art, and trad...

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...HOLOGY 28 NAIL ON NAIL ______ 28 VIGILANCE ________ 28 ORDER ____________ 28 PATOMIME ________ 28 CUCKOO CLOCK (I) _ 29 CUCKOO CLOCK (II) 29 AMERICAN IMMIGRANTS ______________ 29 APHORISM _________ 29 DISGUST ___________ 29 CLASSIC ___________ 29 HEROISM __________ 29 BAGATELLE _______ 29 PRODUCER ________ 30 INTRODUCTION ____ 30 LITERARY REVIEW: 30 PUBL...

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...s losing one‘s job. Sex makes us happier, as does enjoying one‘s job. The Americans, who spend much more time working are much higher on the happine... ...ed at home, in your neighborhood or in school is the truth, divine truth. Americans eat with their forks in their right hands, Europeans with the for... ...ies ate their meals together. She was appalled by the poor manners of the American students. Her mother had taught her good table manners at home, r... ... with your fork in your left hand and your knife in your right). But the Americans had very poor manners. They cut all their food first then put the... ...the right hand. The Norwegian assumed that after a few weeks the ignorant Americans would follow her lead of good manners. After two weeks she was ca... ... couldn‘t have foreseen and probably would disapprove. ―One of our poets put it this way: Is there heaven or is there hell? No book nor sage...

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...s many ideas of what we are and what approaches to life we need to take to be happy. Philosophers have added to the mix. As have playwrights, poets,... ...ms. In boys this is often called the Oedipus complex, in girls, the Electra situation. Both of these ideas come to us from the ancient Greek poets ... ...‘t be surprised when young Germans tortured and killed for Hitler, when young Chinese and Cambodians killed for Mao or Pol Pot, or even young Americ... ... in the vitamin D producing sun, could add the A and D to their skim milk. They don‘t, but are finally thinking about it—sixty years after the Americ... ...ental side, wartime British Prime Minister, historian and author Winston Churchill had a father who wrote of him ‗I have an idiot for a son.‘ Americ... ...he worst outcomes of the power drive is using violence to achieve our ends. Either it is the Crips fighting the Bloods, Cain killing Abel, the Americ... ... warlike mentalities the kill ratios went up in World War II. Japanese as yellow bellied slant-eyed sadists who would dive their bombers into Americ... ...ove can be based primarily on the knowledge of science, but is tempered by insights and speculations of philosophers, religious thinkers, and poets.... ...t that he or she can be. It is a psychological intimacy between people. Here we find in the understandable terms of science that feeling which poets ...

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...d, impressive, highly pictorial.” JOE KNOEFLER in the L.A. Times: “...an American writer gifted with...perception and sensitivity.” FRANK TANNENBA... ... of his work and literary correspondence have now been established at the American Heritage Center of the University of Wyoming, the Nettie Lee Bens... ...Heritage Center of the University of Wyoming, the Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection of the University of Texas, and the Rare Books Collect... ...he Paul Alexander Bartlett Collection held by the Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection of the University of Texas, and form part of a second ... ...y of Texas, and form part of a second diversified col- lection held by the American Heritage Center of the University of Wyoming, which also includes... ...s of international poetry that honor the work of outstanding contemporary poets. Paul and Elizabeth’s son, Steven, edited and designed this volume....

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...d, impressive, highly pictorial.” JOE KNOEFLER in the L.A. Times: “...an American writer gifted with...perception and sensitivity.” FRANK TANNENBA... ... of his work and literary correspondence have now been established at the American Heritage Center of the University of Wyoming, the Nettie Lee Bens... ...Heritage Center of the University of Wyoming, the Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection of the University of Texas, and the Rare Books Collect... ...he Paul Alexander Bartlett Collection held by the Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection of the University of Texas, and form part of a second ... ...y of Texas, and form part of a second diversified col- lection held by the American Heritage Center of the University of Wyoming, which also includes... ... of interna- tional poetry that honor the work of outstanding contemporary poets. Paul and Elizabeth’s son, Steven, edited and designed this volume....

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...d not placed this aspiration within us. The immortality that writers and poets attributed to the Olympian gods is a false immortality that does no... ...eeks were not willing to settle for ephemeral beauty and a large number of poets, sculptors, painters and artists of all types attempted to create a ... .... It is not impossible for a visionary mind like the ones that artists and poets had in the past. We cannot take as role models the artists of today... ...is. When, in October of 1994, a bullet killed the little seven-year-old American Nicholas Green while he was traveling with his family in Italy, ... ...governs the world, manifests itself in various parts of globe and inspires poets and prophets, leaving to the identity and creativity of each cultur... ...a poet. The Hindus who created the sacred texts of the Upanishad were also poets. A poet is not a historian and he or she can mix historical facts w... ... first to assert this, and not long ago, Harold Bloom, one of the greatest American literary critics, said this in his most recently published book ...

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... of Mythology, Roy Chapman Andrews' The New Conquest of Central Asia (The American Museum of Natural History, 1932), the ubiquitous 11th edition of ... ...the visions of the magic makers, the spellbinders, the star trippers, the poets, the singers. Once read, once heard, they haunt, dreams in the mist...

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...Contents At the Golden Gate ..................................................... 5 American Politics ....................................................... 18 American Salmon ...................................................... 29 The Yellowstone ........................................................ 3...

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...es by Rudyard Kipling A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication American Notes by Rudyard Kipling is a publication of the Pennsylvania Stat... ...in the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. American Notes by Rudyard Kipling, the Pennsylvania State University, Elect... ...ia State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Rudyard Kipling American Notes by Rudyard Kipling Intr Intr Intr Intr Introduction oduction... ...and East,” for which The Cen- tury paid the largest price ever given by an American maga- zine for a story. The following year Mr. Kipling married Mr.... ...r, a promi- nent lawyer in New York City and Chicago, who died in 1888, 4 American Notes leaving a fortune of about a million. Her maternal grand- fa... ...hought beyond the enjoyment of a good time. As certain, also, of their own poets have said:— “Man is fire and woman is tow, And the devil he comes and...

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...an by Henry James A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The American by Henry James is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Universi... ...he document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The American by Henry James, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Clas... ...ia State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Henry James The American by Henry James 1877 CHAPTER I O n a brilliant day in May, in the y... ...he truth must be told, he had often admired the copy much more than 4 The American the original. His physiognomy would have sufficiently in- dicated ... ...national mould. The gentleman on the divan was a power- ful specimen of an American. But he was not only a fine American; he was in the first place, p... ... me.” 36 The American “You remind me of the heroes of the French romantic poets, Rolla and Fortunio and all those other insatiable gentlemen for whom...

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...by Ellen Marriage A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Two Poets by Honore de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage is a publication of the Pe... ...he document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Two Poets by Honore de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage, the Pennsylvania State Un... ...lvania State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Balzac T wo Poets by Honore de Balzac T ranslated by Ellen Marriage Dedication T o Mons... ...ty of subscrib- ing myself your sincere admirer and friend, De Balzac. TWO POETS A T THE TIME WHEN THIS STORY OPENS, the Stanhope press and the ink-di... ... invention to which the language owes a figure of speech—“the press 4 Two Poets groans” was no mere rhetorical expression in those days. Leather ink-... ...e cost of production by one-half; and he had another plan for employing an American vegetable fibre for making paper, something after the Chinese fash...

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...tion by Charles Dickens A publication of PSU s Electronic Classics Series American Notes for General Circulation by Charles Dickens is a publicati... ...in the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. American Notes for General Circulation by Charles Dickens , the Pennsylvan... ...ity The Pennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity University. American Notes for General Circulation by Charles Dickens PREFACE TO THE FI... ...eral Circulation by Charles Dickens PREFACE TO THE FIRST CHEAP EDITION OF “AMERICAN NOTES” It is nearly eight years since this book was first publishe... ...ight years, and could disre gard for eighty more. LONDON, JUNE 22, 1850. American Notes – Dickens 3 PREFACE TO THE “CHARLES DICKENS” EDITION OF “A... ...are for poetry:’ though we DO, by the way, profess to be very proud of our poets: while healthful amusements, cheerful means of recreation, and wholes...

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...Excerpt: We had been talking about the masters who had achieved but a single masterpiece--the artists and poets who but once in their lives had known the divine afflatus and touched the high level of perfection. Our host had been showing us a charming little cabinet picture by a painter whose name we had never heard, and who, aft...

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...bout the masters who had achieved but a single masterpiece—the artists and poets who but once in their lives had known the divine afflatus and touched... ...he Madonna of the Future The mystery was suddenly solved; my friend was an American! He must have been, to take the picturesque so prodigiously to hea... ...e was. He confessed with a melancholy but all-respectful head-shake to his American origin. “We are the disinherited of Art!” he cried. “We are con- d... ...mned to be superficial! We are excluded from the magic circle. The soil of American perception is a poor little barren artificial deposit. Yes! we are... ...little barren artificial deposit. Yes! we are wedded to imperfec- tion. An American, to excel, has just ten times as much to learn as a European. We l... ... shrewd Yankee race; but, after all, there could be no better token of his American origin than this high aesthetic fever. The very heat of his devoti...

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...THE POST-OFFICE .................................................................................................................... 273 CHAPTER XIV: AMERICAN HOTELS................................................................................................................. 290 CHAPTER XV: LITERATURE ........................................................................

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............................................................ 273 CHAPTER XIV: AMERICAN HOTELS............................................................... ...o believe in the one or in the other. For myself, I have much faith in the American character, but I cannot believe either in Washington City or in th... ...” and I must say she was very nice, pretty, and clean. I have always found American sailors on their men- of-war to be clean and nice looking—as much ... ...choly place. This was partly owing to the despondent tone in which so many Americans then spoke of their own affairs. It was not that the Northern men... ...of the British model might not on the whole increase the efficiency of the American machine. When any matter of real interest occasioned a vote, the a... ...n historians are acknowledged as great au- thors, and as regards their own poets, will sometimes de- mand your admiration for strains with which you h...

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...eral government that was ever devised for a free people. He found that the American people, through their chosen representatives who were instructed b... ...ent country, or among any different people. The pride and comfort that the American people enjoy in the great commentaries of De Tocqueville are far r... ...ment which has afflicted mankind for many ages, that gives joy to the true American, as it did to De T ocqueville in his great triumph. When De Tocque... ...banished all good feeling from the hearts of our people, the States of the American Union, still in com- plete organization and equipped with all thei... ...de departure 8 Democracy in America from the original plan and purpose of American Democ- racy. “Local Self-Government,” independent of general con- ... ..., they thought themselves transported into those fabulous regions of which poets had sung. The sea sparkled with phosphoric light, and the extraordina... ..., they thought themselves transported into those fabulous regions of which poets had sung. The sea sparkled with phosphoric light, and the extraordina... ...ss progress than in the United States; and in few have great artists, fine poets, or celebrated writers been more rare. Many Europe- ans, struck by th... ... the senses but discovered by the mind, the imagination ranges freely, and poets, finding a thousand subjects to delineate, also find a countless audi...

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... “I daresay not,” rejoined the other. “Oh, I say!” cried his comrade. This animated discussion was checked by their arrival at the hotel, which had be... ...der of the young English- men unfolded his napkin. His companion took no notice whatever of this decla- ration. “I say,” he resumed in a moment, “I su... ...icent young man with a waxed mustache, and a shirtfront adorned with diamond buttons, who every now and then dropped an absent glance over their multi... ...k that day for En- gland; and then it occured to them that they might find an asylum nearer at hand. The cave of Aeolus became their ideal of comfort,... ...So just please to consider yourselves my property; and if anyone should try to appropriate you, please to say, ‘Hands off; too late for the market.’ B... ... coming to England; she had expected the “associations” would be very charm- ing, that it would be an infinite pleasure to rest her eyes upon the thin... ...tic celebrities of whom mention has been made. After a while she reduced the matter to a principle. If Lord Lambeth should appear anywhere, it was a s...

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...house, sometimes the workman at his toil. No occasion is too small for the poets and musicians; a death, a visit, the day’s news, the day’s pleasantry... ...Anglo-Saxon. Here the reader will go forward past the stores of Mr. Moors (American) and Messrs. MacArthur (English); past the English mission, the of... ...sion, the office of the English newspaper, the English church, and the old American consulate, till he reaches the mouth of a larger river, the Vaisin... ...ven theirs are not immaculate. It was an ambiguous business when a private American adventurer was landed with his pieces of artillery from an America... ...friendly sovereign) was kidnapped and de- ported, on the requisition of an American consul, by the captain of an English war-ship. I shall have to tel... ...sion of Stuebel, was in the market supplying him with weapons; so were the Americans; so, but for our salutary British law, would have been the Britis...

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...Contents EXTRACT FROM A LETTER WRITTEN BY MR. DE QUINCEY TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF THIS WORKS. ...................................................................................................... 4 PREFACE TO THE ENGLISH EDITION .............................................................

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...iversity. Contents EXTRACT FROM A LETTER WRITTEN BY MR. DE QUINCEY TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF THIS WORKS. ............................................... ...secondly, in having made me a participator in the pecuniary profits of the American edition, without solicita- tion or the shadow of any expectation o... ...rty years ago, which papers have been reprinted in a collective form by an American house of high character in Boston; but in part they are to be view... ...that sort upon my part. T aking as the basis of my remarks this collective American edition, I will here attempt a rude general classification of all ... ...virtue of their aim, as a far higher class of compositions included in the American col- lection, I rank The Confessions of an Opium Eater, and also (... ...ed, I knew, and I know that, had I chosen to enlist amongst the soi disant poets of the day ,—amongst those, I mean, who, by mere force of talent and ... ...I also could have taken and sustained a place taliter qualiter amongst the poets of the time. Why not then? Simply because I knew that me, as them, wo... ...and legitimate diction of genuine emotion. Rarely, indeed, are the reputed poets of any age men who groan, like prophets, under the burden of a messag...

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...HER PAPERS, VOL. I. ....................................................................................................... 4 FROM THE AUTHOR, TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF HIS WORKS. .......................................................... 4 EXPLANATORY NOTICES......................................................................................................................

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................................................... 4 FROM THE AUTHOR, TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF HIS WORKS. ................................................ ...condly, in hav- ing made me a participator in the pecuniary profits of the American edition, without solicitation or the shadow of any expectation on ... ...form; and so far otherwise, that a period of several years in Kate’s South American life is confessedly suppressed; and on no other ground whatever th... ...le. Already, at fifteen, I had made myself familiar with the great English poets. About sixteen, or not long af- ter, my interest in the story of Chat... ...rymen. With this knowl- edge, and this enthusiastic knowledge of the elder poets—of those most remote from easy access—I could not well be a stranger ... ...on occasion of some question arising about poetry in general, or about the poets of the day, that it became diffi- cult to dissemble. For my part, hat... ...he Greek sensibilities with religious awe, or was felt by the great tragic poets to be so supremely fitted for scenical representation. In one of its ... ...e true dispute is, whether, after having learned that the laborer lived in American plenty, we shall have at all approximated to the appreciation of h...