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...volunteers bring you 7 recordings of Song by James Russell Lowell. This was the Weekly Poetry project for May 1, 2011. James Russell Lowell was an American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat. He is associated with the Fireside Poets, a group of New England writers who were among the first American poets who rivaled the popularity of British poets. These poets u...

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... great livery-stableman’s most masterly intuitions to have discovered that Americans want to get away from amusement even more quickly than they want ... ...nch fiction, and architectural incentives to immorality such as the simple American had never dreamed of. That was how women with lovers lived in the ... ...n Wardian cases, made macrame lace and wool embroidery on linen, collected American revolutionary glazed ware, subscribed to “Good Words,” and read Ou... ...he words “To meet the Countess Olenska,” in accordance with the hospitable American fash- ion, which treats strangers as if they were royalties, or at... ... Medora’s many peculiarities to flout the unalterable rules that regulated American mourning, and when she stepped from the steamer her family were sc... ...se. He knew that there were societies 73 Edith Wharton where painters and poets and novelists and men of science, and even great actors, were as soug...

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...Walt Whitman (1819-1892) is widely considered to be the greatest and most influential of all American poets. The first edition of LEAVES OF GRASS, his sole book which he would continue to revise over the course of his life expanding and rewriting it until the year of his death, appeared in 1855. This volume endeavors...

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...t, rest, perturbed Spirit!”’ “And that, I suppose, means an easy chair?” “An American rocking chair, I think—” “Fayfield Junction, my Lady, change for... ... stood tremulously lean ing on his stick, she turned to me. “This is not an American rocking chair, by any means! Yet may I say,” slightly chang ing... ... Lewis Carroll 175 would be likely to understand or enjoy the greatest of poets: and those, who have passed out of girlhood, may safely be left to ...

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..., somehow, as I had seen imagined in lit- erature. Was she not a friend of poets, a correspondent of philosophers, a muse, a priestess of aesthetics—s... ...ries; he prided himself on his conservative opinions; he thought the usual American laisser-aller in education was a very vulgar prac- tice, and that ...

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...m Surgit amari aliquid. Julia was blest with beauty, wit, and grace: Small poets lov’d to sing her blooming face. Before her altars, lo! a numerous... ...8 - Pity Coleridge: Poems To the Nightingale 1795 Sister of love-lorn Poets, Philomel! How many Bards in city garret pent, While at their win... ...oralist prates, ’Tis the keystone and cement of civilized States. Those American Reps! And i’ faith, they were serious! It shock’d us at Paris,...

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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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...ly, of course, on the “picture book” quality that contemporary English and American prose appears more and more destined, by the conditions of publica... ...fields of light, as that between verse and prose. The circumstance that the poets then, and the more charming ones, have in a number of instances, with... ... to reach its maximum, no doubt, over many of the sorry businesses of “The American,” for instance, where, given the elements and the essence, the lon... ...tion of several shorter pieces. Inevitably, in such a case as that of “The American,” and scarce less indeed in those of “The Portrait of a Lady” and ... ...to his new arrangement had yet had from him—was that he was practising his American in order to converse properly, on equal terms as it were, with Mr.... ...o, it’s his way. It belongs to him.” But she had wondered still. “It’s the American way. That’s all.” “Exactly—it’s all. It’s all I say! It fits him—so...

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... TELLS OF THE PERFECT BEAUTY O CLOUD PALE eyelids, dream dimmed eyes, The poets labouring all their days To build a perfect beauty in rhyme Are overt... ...ECTED POEMS OF W.B. YEATS TO A POET, WHO WOULD HA VE ME PRAISE CERTAIN BAD POETS, IMITATORS OF HIS AND MINE YOU say, as I have often given tongue In p... ... 1914 98 THE COLLECTED POEMS OF W.B. YEATS RESPONSIBILITIES THE GREY ROCK Poets with whom I learned my trade. Companions of the Cheshire Cheese, Here... ...assed against the world. THE WINDING STAIR AND OTHER POEMS 245 The First. American colonies, Ireland, France and India Harried, and Burke’s great mel... ...nous, Great works constructed there in nature’s spite For scholars and for poets after us, Thoughts long knitted into a single thought, A dance like g... ... for theme Traditional sanctity and loveliness; Whatever’s written in what poets name The book of the people; whatever most can bless The mind of man ...

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