Civil War Poetry (Dover Thrift Editions) - Softcover

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9780486298832: Civil War Poetry (Dover Thrift Editions)

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ISBN 10: 0486298833 ISBN 13: 9780486298832

Publisher: Dover Publications, 1997

The long agony of the American Civil War inspired a wealth of contemporary verse — from sentimental doggerel to sublime lyrics that rank among the finest American poetry. This inexpensive anthology brings together a superb selection of poems from both North and South, comprising the best and most representative poetry of those turbulent times.
Over 75 poems include works by many of America's greatest 19th century writers: Walt Whitman, Herman Melville, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, John Greenleaf Whittier, William Cullen Bryant, and many more. Also included are many fine poems by lesser-known poets of the period: Julia Ward Howe, Henry Timrod, Edwin Markham, Edmund Clarence Stedman, Francis Miles Finch, George Henry Boker, and more.
Among the selections in this volume: Julia Ward Howe's "Battle Hymn of the Republic," Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Boston Hymn," John Greenleaf Whittier's "Barbara Frietchie," "The Death of Slavery," by William Cullen Bryant, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's "Killed at the Ford," Henry Howard Brownell's "The Bay Flight," "All Quiet Along the Potomac Tonight" by Ethel Lynn Beers, "O Captain! My Captain!" and "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd" by Walt Whitman, and many more.
Ranging from boisterous calls to arms to poignant memorials for the slain, these poems reflect the heroism, horror, exaltation, and anguish of the bloodiest and most crucial conflict in the nation's history. Anyone interested in the Civil War or American literature of the period will want this collection on their bookshelves.

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By The Potomac by Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Fredericksburg by Thomas Bailey Aldrich
All Quiet Along The Potomac by Ethel Lynn Beers
The Death Of Grant by Ambrose Bierce
The Hesitating Veteran by Ambrose Bierce
Dirge For A Soldier by George Henry Boker
The Bay Fight by Henry Howard Brownell
Abraham Lincoln by William Cullen Bryant
The Death Of Slavery by William Cullen Bryant
Mosby At Hamilton by Madison Julius Cawein
Boston Hymn by Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Blue And The Gray by Francis Miles Finch
Three Hundred Thousand More by James Sloane Gibbons
The Reveille by Francis Bret Harte
A Second Review Of The Grand Army by Francis Bret Harte
Battle Hymn Of The Republic by Julia Ward Howe
Pardon by Julia Ward Howe
Robert E. Lee by Julia Ward Howe
The Dying Words Of Stonewall Jackson by Sidney Lanier
The Cumberland by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Killed At The Ford by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Ode Recited At The Harvard Commemoration, July 21, 1865 by James Russell Lowell
Lincoln, The Man Of The People by Edwin Markham
Ball's Bluff; A Reverie by Herman Melville
A Dirge For Mcpherson; Killed In Front Of Atlanta by Herman Melville
'formerly A Slave' (an Idealized Portrait, By E. Vedder) by Herman Melville
Malvern Hill (july, 1862) by Herman Melville
The March Into Virginia by Herman Melville
On The Slain At Chickamauga by Herman Melville
The Portent by Herman Melville
Rebel Color-bearers At Shiloh by Herman Melville
Sheridan At Cedar Creek by Herman Melville
Shiloh; A Requiem by Herman Melville
Stonewall Jackson; Mortally Wounded At Chancellorsville by Herman Melville
The Surrender At Appomattox by Herman Melville
The Battlefield: Gettysburg by Lloyd Mifflin
Driving Home The Cows by Kate Putnam Osgood
My Maryland by James Ryder Randall
Gettysburg by James Jeffrey Roche
The Conquered Banner by Abram Joseph Ryan
Kearny At Seven Pines by Edmund Clarence Stedman
Sumter by Edmund Clarence Stedman
Lee To The Rear by John Reuben Thompson
The High Tide At Gettysburg by Will Henry Thompson
A Battle Ballad To General J.e. Johnston by Francis Orrery Ticknor
Little Giffen by Francis Orrery Ticknor
'our Left' by Francis Orrery Ticknor
The Virginians Of The Valley by Francis Orrery Ticknor
Charleston by Henry Timrod
A Cry To Arms by Henry Timrod
The Despot Treads Thy Sacred Sands by Henry Timrod
Ethnogenesis by Henry Timrod
Ode At Magnolia Cemetery by Henry Timrod
An Army Corps On The March by Walt Whitman
The Artilleryman's Vision by Walt Whitman
Beat! Beat! Drums! by Walt Whitman
Bivouac On A Mountain Side by Walt Whitman
Cavalry Crossing A Ford by Walt Whitman
A March In The Ranks Hard-prest And The Road Unknown by Walt Whitman
O Captain! My Captain! by Walt Whitman
President Lincoln's Burial Hymn by Walt Whitman
A Sight In Camp In The Daybreak Gray And Dim by Walt Whitman
To A Certain Civilian by Walt Whitman
Vigil Strange I Kept On The Field One Night by Walt Whitman
The Wound-dresser by Walt Whitman
Barbara Frietchie by John Greenleaf Whittier
The Battle Autumn Of 1862 by John Greenleaf Whittier
Brown Of Ossawatomie by John Greenleaf Whittier
Ein Feste Burg Ist Unser Gott by John Greenleaf Whittier
Laus Deo! by John Greenleaf Whittier
A Word For The Hour by John Greenleaf Whittier
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder�

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