Anthology of American Literature, Volume 1George McMichael, Frederick C. Crews Represents the American literary works most respected by modern scholars. Volume I covers Christopher Columbus through Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson. This book also emphasizes the contributions to the American literary canon made by women and minority authors. Extensive explanatory headnotes and footnotes link the works and authors of a period and provide readers with additional insights into each selection. New to this edition is an expanded presentation of Native American literature (myths, tales, autobiography, etc.). |
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... Ligeia ! Ligeia ! Buried in studies of a nature more than all else adapted to deaden impressions of the outward world , it is by that sweet word alone - by Ligeia - that I bring before mine eyes in fancy the image of her who is no more ...
... Ligeia ! Ligeia ! Buried in studies of a nature more than all else adapted to deaden impressions of the outward world , it is by that sweet word alone - by Ligeia - that I bring before mine eyes in fancy the image of her who is no more ...
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... Ligeia . For eyes we have no models in the remotely antique . It might have been , too , that in these eyes of my beloved lay the secret to which Lord Verulam al- ludes . They were , I must believe , far larger than the ordinary eyes of ...
... Ligeia . For eyes we have no models in the remotely antique . It might have been , too , that in these eyes of my beloved lay the secret to which Lord Verulam al- ludes . They were , I must believe , far larger than the ordinary eyes of ...
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... Ligeia . An intensity in thought , action , or speech , was possibly , in her , a result , or at least an index , of that gigantic voli- tion which , during our long intercourse , failed to give ... Ligeia I was but as a POE / Ligeia 745.
... Ligeia . An intensity in thought , action , or speech , was possibly , in her , a result , or at least an index , of that gigantic voli- tion which , during our long intercourse , failed to give ... Ligeia I was but as a POE / Ligeia 745.
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Columbuss Letter Describing His First Voyage | 15 |
CAPTAIN JOHN SMITH | 22 |
FROM A Description of New England | 36 |
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