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A comprehensive overview of americas vast poetic heritage, three centuries of american poetry features the work of some 150 of our nations finest writers. However, formatting rules can vary widely between applications and fields of interest or study. In 1853 william wells brown, an internationally known fugitive slave narrator, authored the first black american novel, clotel. I will attempt to take a closeup photo of the authors represented in this book.
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American poetry and prose norman foerster discusses important writers from the colonial period, the neoclassic age, the romantic movement, realism and naturalism, and the twentieth century 19141970. This was the book, a commercial failure, which prompted emersons famous message to whitman. Africanamerican literature is the body of literature produced in the united states by writers of african descent. The oxford book of american poetry hardcover april 3, 2006. Overall most the book is about god, nature and there believes. It includes selections from anne bradstreet, ralph waldo emerson, henry wadsworth longfellow, emily dickinson, edgar allan poe, walt. This book was undertaken in response to the desire for a large body of standard english literature in an accessible. Three centuries of american poetry and prose by newcomer, andrews, hall and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at.
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