Book: Paperback | 129 x 198mm | 304 pages | ISBN 9780140436860 | 26 Jun 2003 | Penguin Classic | 18 - AND UP
‘They said that Fame her clarion dropped
Because great deeds were done no more---
… And Glory---‘twas a fallen star!
But battle can heroes and bards restore’
From out of the shadow cast by the Civil War, emerged three unique American voices. Herman Melville explored the effect of the war on America’s youth and the death of heroism in a series of intense narrative poems, which are represented here along with his later, more introspective verse. A similar strain of loss marks the work of Frederick Goddard Tuckerman, who was also grieving for the death of his wife, and whose haunting lyrics were influenced by his friendship with Tennyson. Two-time Pulitzer prize-winner Edwin Arlington Robinson’s work was characterized by his masterly use of the sonnet form and his penetrating character study. His most famous poems are gathered here alongside some less familiar verse.
This new anthology contains a general preface, along with individual introductions to each poet, a table of dates and suggestions for further reading.
Three American Poets
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Table of Dates
Further Reading Herman Melville
Preface
The Portent
Misgivings
The Conflict of Convictions
The March into Virginia, Ending in the First Manassas
Ball's Bluff, A Reverie
A Utilitarian View of the Monitor's Fight
Shiloh, A Requiem
Malvern Hill
Stonewall Jackson, Mortally Wounded at Chancellorsville
Gettysburg
The House-Top, A Night Piece
On the Photograph of a Corps Commander
The Swamp Angel
The College Colonel
At the Cannon's Mouth, Destruction of the Ram Albermarle by the Torpedo-launch
"The Coming Storm," A Picture by S. R. Gifford, and owned by E. B. Included in the N. A. Exhibition, April, 1865
The Released Rebel Prisoner
A Grave Near Petersburg, Virginia
On the Slain Collegians
The Fortitude of the North, under the Disaster of the Second Manassas
On the Men of Maine, Killed in the Victory of Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Inscription: For Marye's Heights, Fredericksburg
On the Slain at Chickamauga
On Sherman's Men, Who Fell in the Assault of Kenesaw Mountain, Georgia
Commemorative of a Naval Victory
The Maldive Shark
The Berg (A Dream)
The Enviable Isles (From "Rammon")
Billy in the Darbies
Timoleon (394 BC)
The Ravaged Villa
Monody
Lone Founts
Art
Fragments of a Lost Gnostic Poem of the 12th Century
In a Church of Padua
The Attic Landscape
Greek Masonry
Greek Architecture
Immolated
When Forth the Shepherd Leads the Flock
Trophies of Peace, Illinois in 1840
Field Asters
The Avatar
The American Aloe on Exhibition
Inscription: For a Boulder near the spot...
Rose Window
Thy Aim, Thy Aim?
Camoëns, I (Before)
Camoëns in the Hospital, 2 (After)
A Spirit Appeared to Me
Pontoosuc
Frederick Goddard Tuckerman
Preface
November
April
Inspiration
Sonnet ("Again, again, ye part in stormy grief")
Sic Itur Ad Astra
Twilight
The Stranger
The School-Girl, An Idyll
Rhotruda
—— ("I took from its glass a flower")
Sidney
Paulo to Francesca
Margites from Sonnets, Part I
Sonnets, Part II from Sonnets, Part III from Sonnets, Part IV from Sonnets, Part V
The Cricket
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Preface
The Torrent
Aaron Stark
Dear Friends
Sonnet ("When we can all so excellently give")
Her Eyes
George Crabbe
Sonnet ("Oh, for a poet - for a beacon bright")
Luke Havergal
The Chorus of Old Men in "Aegus"
Horace to Leucono—
Reuben Bright
The Ballade of Dead Friends
Thomas Hood
For a Book by Thomas Hardy
Supremacy
Three Quatrains ("As long as Fame's imperious music rings")
John Evereldown
The Clerks
Verlaine
Walt Whitman
Boston
Richard Cory
Amaryllis
Cliff Klingenhagen
Octaves
The Growth of "Lorraine"
The Corridor
Pasa Thalassa Thalassa, "The sea is everywhere the sea"
Momus
Uncle Ananias
How Annandale Went Out
Miniver Cheevy
For a Dead Lady
Eros Turannos
Theophilus
Veteran Sirens
Another Dark Lady
Bewick Finzer
The Man Against the Sky
The Flying Dutchman
Firelight
Mr. Flood's Party
The Tree in Pamela's Garden
Lost Anchors
Monadnock Through the Trees
Many Are Called
The Sheaves
Silver Street
A Man in Our Town
Why He Was There
Glass Houses
New England
Reunion
Young Gideon (Judges 6)
