| Description |
xl, 482 pages : portrait ; 20 cm. |
| Series |
Penguin classics |
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Penguin twentieth-century classics |
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Penguin classics.
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Penguin twentieth-century classics.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages xxxiii-xxxv). |
| Contents |
STORIES : History and the supernatural : Jacob and the Indians -- The devil and Daniel Webster -- The sobbin' women -- Freedom's a hard bought thing -- The die-hard -- The minister's books -- O'Halloran's luck. The American Scene : A death in the country -- Blossom and fruit -- Among those present -- A life at Angelo's -- Too early spring -- The three fates. Politics and Prophecies : The blood of the martyrs -- Into Egypt -- By the waters of Babylon. -- POETRY : Selections from John Brown's body. Americans : The ballad of William Sycamore -- The mountain whippoorwill -- American names : Pocohontas -- Pilgrims and Puritans -- Thomas Jefferson -- Dolly Madison -- Daniel Boone -- Crazy Horse -- Negro spirituals -- Ode to Walt Whitman. Youth and Love : Portrait of young love -- The general public -- To Rosemary -- Difference -- A nonsense song -- To Rosemary, on the methods by which she might become an angel -- All night long. Meditations and Complaints : Judgment -- The lost wife -- Sparrow -- Complaint of body, the ass, against his rider, the soul -- Critics. "For you who are to come" : For city lovers -- Litany for dictatorships -- Minor litany -- Nightmare number three -- 1936 -- Nightmare at noon -- Tuesday, November 5th, 1940. Selections from Western Star. ON WRITING AND OTHER MATTERS : The most unforgettable character I've met -- Letter to Bloomingdale's -- Letters to the Guggenheim Foundation -- Concerning children's poems -- From forewords to the Yale series of younger poets -- Two letters to Pauli Murray --If this should change. |
| Summary |
"This unique collection gathers a generous selection of Benet's verse - including the previously unpublished first book of Western Star - together with sixteen of his celebrated short stories. Townsend Ludington provides an illuminating introductory essay on this great, neglected American master."--Jacket. |
| Subject |
Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852 -- Fiction.
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Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852 (OCoLC)fst00052144
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Literatura norte-americana.
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Crônica -- Estados unidos.
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| Genre/Form |
Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
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| Added Author |
Ludington, Townsend, 1936-2021
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| Added Title |
Devil and Daniel Webster |
| ISBN |
0140437401 |
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9780140437409 |
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