| Description |
xxviii, 370 pages ; 24 cm |
| Note |
"A Karen & Michael Braziller Book." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-353) and index. |
| Contents |
Revolutionary War -- Paul Revere's Ride / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- Yankee Doodle -- To His Excellency General Washington / Phillis Wheatley -- Warren's Address to the American Soldiers / John Pierpont -- Song of Marion's Men / William Cullen Bryant -- Black Samson of Brandywine / Paul Laurence Dunbar -- The Yankee Man-of-War from The British Prison Ship / Philip Freneau -- To the Memory of the Brave Americans / Philip Freneau -- from The Columbiad / Joel Barlow -- New England's Dead / Isaac McLellan -- Concord Hymn / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- War of 1812 -- from The Battle of Niagara / John Neal -- On the Conflagrations at Washington / Philip Freneau -- The Star-Spangled Banner / Francis Scott Key -- Old Ironsides / Oliver Wendell Holmes -- Mexican-American War -- Ode, Inscribed to W. H. Channing / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- The Angels of Buena Vista / John Greenleaf Whittier -- from The Biglow Papers / James Russell Lowell -- When With Pale Cheek and Sunken Eye I Sang / Henry David Thoreau -- Civil War -- In the Defences / Elizabeth Akers Allen. |
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John Brown's Body / Thomas Brigham Bishop and Charles Sprague Hall -- The March into Virginia / Herman Melville -- A Utilitarian View of the Monitor's Fight / Herman Melville -- The College Colonel / Herman Melville -- Battle Hymn of the Republic / Julia Ward Howe -- Barbara Frietchie / John Greenleaf Whittier -- Fredericksburg / Thomas Bailey Aldrich -- The Dying Words of Stonewall Jackson / Sidney Lanier -- The High Tide at Gettysburg / Will Henry Thompson -- The Battlefield / Lloyd Mifflin -- Corporeal / Ambrose Bierce -- Sheridan's Ride / Thomas Buchanan Read -- Cavalry Crossing a Ford / Walt Whitman -- Vigil Strange I Kept On The Field One Night / Walt Whitman -- The Wound Dresser / Walt Whitman -- My Triumph Lasted Till The Drums / Emily Dickinson -- My Portion is Defeat Today / Emily Dickinson -- Ode to the Confederate Dead / Allen Tate -- Memorial Wreath / Dudley Randall -- For the Union Dead / Robert Lowell -- Hunting Civil War Relics at Nimblewell Creek / James Dickey. |
| Subject |
War poetry, American.
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United States -- History, Military -- Poetry.
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| Added Author |
Hedin, Robert, 1949-
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| ISBN |
0892553103 original trade pbk. alkaline paper |
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