{"product_id":"the-mentor-book-of-major-american-poets-isbn-9780451627919","title":"The Mentor Book of Major American Poets","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe voice of the nation rings out loud and clear in this unique anthology of great American poetry.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Editors Oscar Williams and Edwin Honig concentrate on the work of 20 major American poets. They include sizable selections from the poetry of:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e • Wallace Stevens\u003cbr\u003e• Ralph Waldo Emerson\u003cbr\u003e• William Carlos Williams\u003cbr\u003e• Henry Wadsworth\u003cbr\u003e• Ezra Pound\u003cbr\u003e• Walt Whitman\u003cbr\u003e• Edgar Allen Poe\u003cbr\u003e• Emily Dickinson\u003cbr\u003e• Edna St. Vincent Millay\u003cbr\u003e• Stephen Crane\u003cbr\u003e• e. e. cummings\u003cbr\u003e• Robert Frost\u003cbr\u003e• Hart Crane\u003cbr\u003e• W. H. Auden\u003cbr\u003e• And more...Introduction\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdward Taylor (1645-1729)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Preface\u003cbr\u003eOur Insufficiency to Praise God Suitably for His Mercy\u003cbr\u003eHousewifery\u003cbr\u003eAm I Thy Gold? Or Purse, Lord, for Thy Wealth\u003cbr\u003eThy Human Frame, My Glorious Lord, I Spy\u003cbr\u003eI Kenning through Astronomy Divine\u003cbr\u003eThe Accusation of the Inward Man\u003cbr\u003eUpon a Spider Catching a Fly\u003cbr\u003eThe Outward Man Accused\u003cbr\u003eThe Joy of Church Fellowship Rightly Attended\u003cbr\u003eAn Address to the Soul Occasioned by a Rain\u003cbr\u003eStupendous Love! All Saints' Astonishment!\u003cbr\u003eOh! What a Thing Is Man? Lord, Who Am I?\u003cbr\u003eStill I Complain; I Am Complaining Still\u003cbr\u003eShould I with Silver Tools Delve through the Hill\u003cbr\u003eThe Reflection\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRalph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eConcord Hymn\u003cbr\u003eBrahma\u003cbr\u003eThe Rhodora\u003cbr\u003eThe Humblebee\u003cbr\u003eEach and All\u003cbr\u003eThe Problem\u003cbr\u003eWoodnotes\u003cbr\u003eThe Snowstorm\u003cbr\u003eFable\u003cbr\u003eDays\u003cbr\u003eSaadi\u003cbr\u003eHamatreya\u003cbr\u003eExperience\u003cbr\u003eCompensation\u003cbr\u003eForbearance\u003cbr\u003eThe Past\u003cbr\u003eOde\u003cbr\u003eGive All to Love\u003cbr\u003eTerminus\u003cbr\u003eGood-bye\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHenry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHymn to the Night\u003cbr\u003eThe Day Is Done\u003cbr\u003eCurfew\u003cbr\u003eThe Jewish Cemetery at Newport\u003cbr\u003eMy Lost Youth\u003cbr\u003eThe Birds of Killingworth\u003cbr\u003eDivina Commedia\u003cbr\u003eThe Fire of Driftwood\u003cbr\u003eChaucer\u003cbr\u003eThe Tide Rises, The Tide Falls\u003cbr\u003eThe Cross of Snow\u003cbr\u003eThe Bells of San Blas\u003cbr\u003eThe Arrow and the Song\u003cbr\u003ePossibilities\u003cbr\u003eThe Ropewalk\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003efrom\u003c\/i\u003e Evangeline\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003efrom\u003c\/i\u003e The Song of Hiawatha\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDreams\u003cbr\u003eA Dream within a Dream\u003cbr\u003e\"The Happiest Day, The Happiest Hour\"\u003cbr\u003eSonnet - To Science\u003cbr\u003eRomance\u003cbr\u003eTo Helen\u003cbr\u003eIsrafel\u003cbr\u003eThe City in the Sea\u003cbr\u003eThe Sleeper\u003cbr\u003eTo One in Paradise\u003cbr\u003eThe Haunted Palace\u003cbr\u003eSonnet - Silence\u003cbr\u003eThe Conqueror Worm\u003cbr\u003eDreamland\u003cbr\u003eThe Raven\u003cbr\u003eThe Bells\u003cbr\u003eUlalume - A Ballad\u003cbr\u003eEldorado\u003cbr\u003eFor Annie\u003cbr\u003eAnnabel Lee\u003cbr\u003eThe Lake: To --\u003cbr\u003eAlone\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWalt Whitman (1819-1892)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSong of Myself (Complete)\u003cbr\u003eNative Moments\u003cbr\u003eEarth, My Likeness\u003cbr\u003eOut of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking\u003cbr\u003eI Sit and Look Out\u003cbr\u003eVigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night\u003cbr\u003eReconciliation\u003cbr\u003eWhen Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomed\u003cbr\u003eO Captain! My Captain!\u003cbr\u003eTo Think of Time\u003cbr\u003eJoy, Shipmate, Joy!\u003cbr\u003eGood-bye My Fancy!\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEmily Dickinson (1830-1886)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSuccess Is Counted Sweetest\u003cbr\u003eOne Dignity Delays for All\u003cbr\u003eNew Feet within My Garden Go\u003cbr\u003eSurgeons Must Be Very Careful\u003cbr\u003eFaith Is a Fine Invention\u003cbr\u003eHope Is the Thing with Feathers\u003cbr\u003eI Should Not Dare to Leave My Friend\u003cbr\u003eI Taste a Liquor Never Brewed\u003cbr\u003eThere's a Certain Slant of Light\u003cbr\u003eI Felt a Funeral in My Brain\u003cbr\u003eI'm Nobody. Who Are You?\u003cbr\u003eThe Soul Selects Her Own Society\u003cbr\u003eI Should Have Been Too Glad, I See\u003cbr\u003eBefore I Got My Eye Put Out\u003cbr\u003eA Bird Came Down the Walk\u003cbr\u003eI Dreaded That First Robin So\u003cbr\u003eNo Rack Can Torture Me\u003cbr\u003eThere's Been a Death in the Opposite House\u003cbr\u003eWhat Soft Cherubic Creatures\u003cbr\u003eMuch Madness Is Divinest Sense\u003cbr\u003eThe Wind Tapped Like a Tired Man\u003cbr\u003eThis Is My Letter to the World\u003cbr\u003eI Died for Beauty\u003cbr\u003eI Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died\u003cbr\u003eIt Was Not Death, for I Stood Up\u003cbr\u003eI Started Early, Took My Dog\u003cbr\u003eThe Heart Asks Pleasure First\u003cbr\u003eI Had Been Hungry All the Years\u003cbr\u003eI Laughed a Crumbling Laugh\u003cbr\u003eBecause I Could Not Stop for Death\u003cbr\u003eA Narrow Fellow in the Grass\u003cbr\u003eThe Sky Is Low, the Clouds Are Mean\u003cbr\u003eI Never Saw a Moor\u003cbr\u003eThe Last Night That She Lived\u003cbr\u003eWhile We Were Fearing It, It Came\u003cbr\u003eThere Came a Wind Like a Bugle\u003cbr\u003eOf God We Ask One Favor\u003cbr\u003eMy Life Closed Twice Before Its Close\u003cbr\u003eThe Distance That the Dead Have Gone\u003cbr\u003eThe Saddest Noise, the Sweetest Noise\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdwin Arlington Robison (1869-1935)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFlammonde\u003cbr\u003eLuke Havergal\u003cbr\u003eCharles Carville's Eyes\u003cbr\u003eReuben Bright\u003cbr\u003eRichard Cory\u003cbr\u003eJohn Evereldown\u003cbr\u003eAaron Stark\u003cbr\u003eFleming Helphenstine\u003cbr\u003eCliff Klingenhagen\u003cbr\u003eGeorge Crabbe\u003cbr\u003eCredo\u003cbr\u003eBewick Finzer\u003cbr\u003eMany Are Called\u003cbr\u003eNew England\u003cbr\u003eThe Miller's Wife\u003cbr\u003eAs It Looked Then\u003cbr\u003eAnother Dark Lady\u003cbr\u003e\"If the Lord Would Make Windows in Heaven\"\u003cbr\u003eRecalled\u003cbr\u003eHaunted House\u003cbr\u003eA Mighty Runner\u003cbr\u003eThe Story of the Ashes and the Flame\u003cbr\u003eHillcrest\u003cbr\u003eEros Turannos\u003cbr\u003eMr. Flood's Party\u003cbr\u003eCassandra\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eStephen Crane (1871-1900)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the Desert\u003cbr\u003eA God in Wrath\u003cbr\u003eI Saw a Man Pursuing\u003cbr\u003eBehold, the Grave\u003cbr\u003eMany Workmen\u003cbr\u003eA Learned Man Came to Me Once\u003cbr\u003eThere Was Set beore Me a Mighty Hill\u003cbr\u003eA Youth in Apparel That Glittered\u003cbr\u003eThere Was One I Met\u003cbr\u003eA Man Saw a Ball of Gold\u003cbr\u003eOn the Horizon\u003cbr\u003eI Walked in a Desert\u003cbr\u003eTradition, Thou Art for Suckling Children\u003cbr\u003eMany Red Devils\u003cbr\u003eYou Say You Are Holy\u003cbr\u003e\"It Was Wrong to Do This\"\u003cbr\u003eA Man Feared\u003cbr\u003eThe Sage Lectured\u003cbr\u003eGod Lay Dead\u003cbr\u003eWar Is Kind\u003cbr\u003eA Little Ink More or Less\u003cbr\u003eFast Rode the Knight\u003cbr\u003eA Newspaper\u003cbr\u003eThe Wayfarer\u003cbr\u003eA Slant of Sun\u003cbr\u003eThe Impact of a Dollar\u003cbr\u003eAy, Workman\u003cbr\u003eThere Was a Man with Tongue of Wood\u003cbr\u003eI Stood upon a High Place\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRobert Frost (b. 1874)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMending Wall\u003cbr\u003eAfter Apple Picking\u003cbr\u003eThe Oven Bird\u003cbr\u003eBirches\u003cbr\u003eThe Subverted Flower\u003cbr\u003eThe Gift Outright\u003cbr\u003eTo Earthward\u003cbr\u003eTree at My Window\u003cbr\u003eTwo Tramps in Mud Time\u003cbr\u003eThe Witch of Coös\u003cbr\u003eOnce by the Pacific\u003cbr\u003eAcquainted with the Night\u003cbr\u003eOn Looking Up by Chance at the Constellations\u003cbr\u003eStopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening\u003cbr\u003eThe Road Not Taken\u003cbr\u003eNeither Out Far nor in Deep\u003cbr\u003eThe Vantage Point\u003cbr\u003eThe Tuft of Flowers\u003cbr\u003eDirective\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eVachel Lindsay (1879-1931)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Leaden-Eyed\u003cbr\u003eThe Unpardonable Sin\u003cbr\u003eSimon Legree - A Negro Sermon\u003cbr\u003eThe Eagle That Is Forgotten\u003cbr\u003eThe Bronco That Would Not Be Broken\u003cbr\u003eThe Ghosts of the Buffaloes\u003cbr\u003eFactory Windows Are Always Broken\u003cbr\u003eThe Pontoon-Bridge Miracle\u003cbr\u003eBryan, Bryan, Bryan, Bryan\u003cbr\u003eGeneral William Booth Enters into Heaven\u003cbr\u003eThe Congo\u003cbr\u003eAbraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWallace Stevens (1879-1955)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePeter Quince at the Clavier\u003cbr\u003eSunday Morning\u003cbr\u003eLe Monocle de Mon Oncle\u003cbr\u003eFlyer's Fall\u003cbr\u003eMen Made Out of Words\u003cbr\u003eThe Glass of Water\u003cbr\u003eAnecdote of the Jar\u003cbr\u003eThe Emperor of Ice Cream\u003cbr\u003eDry Loaf\u003cbr\u003eTo the One of Fictive Music\u003cbr\u003eBantams in Pine Woods\u003cbr\u003eThe Idea of Order at Key West\u003cbr\u003eA Postcard from the Volcano\u003cbr\u003eCuisine Bourgeoisie\u003cbr\u003ePoetry Is a Destructive Force\u003cbr\u003eThe Poems of Our Climate\u003cbr\u003eMartial Cadenza\u003cbr\u003eThe Dwarf\u003cbr\u003eNo Possum, No Sop, No Taters\u003cbr\u003eEsthétique du Mal\u003cbr\u003eThe Good Man Has No Shape\u003cbr\u003eCredences of Summer\u003cbr\u003eTwo Things of Opposite Natures Seem to Depend\u003cbr\u003eTo an Old Philosopher in Rome\u003cbr\u003eNot Ideas about the Thing But the Thing Itself\u003cbr\u003eCrude Foyer\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWilliam Carlos Williams (b. 1883)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Yachts\u003cbr\u003eTo a Poor Old Woman\u003cbr\u003eThe Sea Elephant\u003cbr\u003eLear\u003cbr\u003eThese\u003cbr\u003eBurning the Christmas Greens\u003cbr\u003eThe Dance\u003cbr\u003eOn Gay Wallpaper\u003cbr\u003eThe Pure Products of America\u003cbr\u003eBy the Road to the Contagious Hospital\u003cbr\u003eQueen-Ann's-Lace\u003cbr\u003eTract\u003cbr\u003eSix Poems from \u003ci\u003ePaterson\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEzra Pound (b. 1885)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNa Audiart\u003cbr\u003eBallad of the Goodly Fere\u003cbr\u003ePortrait d'une Femme\u003cbr\u003eA Virginal\u003cbr\u003eThe Return\u003cbr\u003eTenzone\u003cbr\u003eSalutation\u003cbr\u003eA Pact\u003cbr\u003eThe Rest\u003cbr\u003eThe Temperaments\u003cbr\u003eIn a Station of the Metro\u003cbr\u003eThe River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter\u003cbr\u003eHugh Selwyn Mauberley\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003efrom\u003c\/i\u003e Homage to Sextus Propertius\u003cbr\u003eCanto I\u003cbr\u003eCanto II\u003cbr\u003eCanto III\u003cbr\u003eCanto XVII\u003cbr\u003eCanto XLV\u003cbr\u003eCanto LXXXI\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMarianne Moore (b. 1887)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNo Swan So Fine\u003cbr\u003eThe Fish\u003cbr\u003eIn This Age of Hard Trying, Nonchalance is Good and\u003cbr\u003eCritics and Connoisseurs\u003cbr\u003eThe Monkeys\u003cbr\u003eIn the Days of Prismatic Colour\u003cbr\u003eEngland\u003cbr\u003eA Grave\u003cbr\u003eThe Labours of Hercules\u003cbr\u003eTo a Steam Roller\u003cbr\u003eTo a Snail\u003cbr\u003eTo the Peacock of France\u003cbr\u003eThe Past Is the Present\u003cbr\u003eWhat Are Years?\u003cbr\u003eSpenser's Ireland\u003cbr\u003eNevertheless\u003cbr\u003eThe Mind Is an Enchanting Thing\u003cbr\u003eIn Distrust of Merits\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn Crowe Ransom (b. 1888)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWinter Remembered\u003cbr\u003eNecrological\u003cbr\u003eBells for John Whiteside's Daughter\u003cbr\u003eDead Boy\u003cbr\u003eGood Ships\u003cbr\u003eEmily Hardcastle, Spinster\u003cbr\u003eHere Lies a Lady\u003cbr\u003eConrad in Twilight\u003cbr\u003eArmageddon\u003cbr\u003eJudith of Bethulia\u003cbr\u003eBlue Girls\u003cbr\u003eOld Man Playing with Children\u003cbr\u003eCaptain Carpenter\u003cbr\u003eOld Mansion\u003cbr\u003ePiazza Piece\u003cbr\u003eVision by Sweetwater\u003cbr\u003eHer Eyes\u003cbr\u003eParting, without a Sequel\u003cbr\u003eJanet Waking\u003cbr\u003eTwo in August\u003cbr\u003eOur Two Worthies\u003cbr\u003eMan without Sense of Direction\u003cbr\u003eSurvey of Literature\u003cbr\u003eThe Equilibrists\u003cbr\u003ePainted Head\u003cbr\u003eAddress to the Scholars of New England\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRenascence\u003cbr\u003eDirge without Music\u003cbr\u003eSpring\u003cbr\u003eThe Ballad of the Harp-Weaver\u003cbr\u003eMoriturus\u003cbr\u003eRecuerdo\u003cbr\u003eThe Cameo\u003cbr\u003eLament\u003cbr\u003eElegy Before Death\u003cbr\u003eThe Return\u003cbr\u003eConscientious Objector\u003cbr\u003eOh, Think Not I Am Faithless to a Vow!\u003cbr\u003eI Shall Forget You Presently, My Dear\u003cbr\u003eNot with Libations, But with Shouts and Laughter\u003cbr\u003eAnd You As Well Must Die, Beloved Dust\u003cbr\u003ePity Me Not Because the Light of Day\u003cbr\u003eI Shall Go Back Again to the Bleak Shore\u003cbr\u003eWhat Lips My Lips Have Kissed, and Where, and Why\u003cbr\u003eEuclid Alone Has Looked on Beauty Bare\u003cbr\u003eTo Jesus on His Birthday\u003cbr\u003eOn Hearing a Symphony of Beethoven\u003cbr\u003eLove Is Not All: It Is Not Meat nor Drink\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eArchibald MacLeish (b.1892)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Silent Slain\u003cbr\u003eEleven\u003cbr\u003eArs Poetica\u003cbr\u003eYou, Andrew Marvell\u003cbr\u003eThe End of the World\u003cbr\u003eMemorial Rain\u003cbr\u003e\"Not Marble nor the Gilded Monuments\"\u003cbr\u003ePony Rock\u003cbr\u003ePole Star for This Year\u003cbr\u003ePoem in Prose\u003cbr\u003eWhat Any Lover Learns\u003cbr\u003eThe Steamboat Whistle\u003cbr\u003eStarved Lovers\u003cbr\u003eWhat the Serpent Said to Adam\u003cbr\u003eVicissitudes of the Creator\u003cbr\u003eMy Naked Aunt\u003cbr\u003eThe Genius\u003cbr\u003eReasons for Music\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ee. e. cummings (b. 1894)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSpring is like a perhaps hand\u003cbr\u003edarling!because my blood can sing\u003cbr\u003ewhen serpents bargain for the right to squirm\u003cbr\u003ei thank You God for most this amazing\u003cbr\u003eall ignorance toboggans into know\u003cbr\u003emaggie and milly and molly and may\u003cbr\u003eso shy shy shy(and with a\u003cbr\u003ein time of daffodils(who know\u003cbr\u003eif there are any heavens my mother will(all by herself)have\u003cbr\u003eMouse)Won\u003cbr\u003ethat melancholy\u003cbr\u003eThanksgiving\u003cbr\u003ewhatever's merely wilful\u003cbr\u003estand with your lover on the ending earth\u003cbr\u003ei am a little church(no great cathedral)\u003cbr\u003ei carry your heart with me(i carry it in\u003cbr\u003eif up's the word;and a world grows greener\u003cbr\u003ewhat if a much of a which of a wind\u003cbr\u003eno man,if men are gods;but if gods must\u003cbr\u003ei sing of Olaf glad and big\u003cbr\u003ea man who had fallen among thieves\u003cbr\u003e\"next to of course god america i\u003cbr\u003eanyone lived in a pretty how town\u003cbr\u003epity this busy monster,manunkind\u003cbr\u003emy father moved through dooms of love\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHart Crane (1899-1932)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Bridge \u003ci\u003e(Complete)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBlack Tambourine\u003cbr\u003eEmblems of Conduct\u003cbr\u003ePraise for an Urn\u003cbr\u003eGarden Abstract\u003cbr\u003eStark Major\u003cbr\u003eVoyages, I to VI\u003cbr\u003eThe Broken Tower\u003cbr\u003eRepose of Rivers\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eW. 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