| Description |
1 online resource (xxii, 332 pages) |
| Contents |
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part I: The Earliest Bards -- Joel Barlow: March 24, 1754-December 26, 1812 -- Thomas Law: October 23, 1756-July 31, 1834 -- John Quincy Adams: July 11, 1767-February 23, 1848 -- Thomas Kennedy: November 29, 1776-October 18, 1832 -- James Kirke Paulding: August 22, 1778-April 6, 1860 -- Francis Scott Key: August 1, 1779-January 11, 1843 -- Joseph Story: September 18, 1779-September 10, 1845 -- George Washington Parke Custis: April 30, 1781-October 10, 1857 -- John Agg: 1783-April 19, 1855 -- George Watterston: October 23, 1783-February 4, 1854 |
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Emma Willard: February 23, 1787-April 15, 1870 -- Part II : The Rift of the Civil War -- John Pierpont: April 6, 1785-August 27, 1866 -- B. B. French: September 4, 1800-August 12, 1870 -- Albert Pike: December 29, 1809-April 2, 1891 -- Margaret Lucy Shands Bailey: November 12, 1812-1888 -- William Slade: 1815-March 16, 1868 -- Arthur Bowen: 1816?-? -- Frederick Douglass: February 1818?-February 20, 1895 -- Walt Whitman: May 31, 1819-March 26, 1892 -- Sara Clarke Lippincott (Grace Greenwood): September 23, 1823-April 20, 1904 -- George Boyer Vashon: July 25, 1824-October 5, 1878 |
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Mary E. Nealy: December 12, 1825-February 8, 1902 -- O. O. Howard: November 8, 1830-October 26, 1909 -- John Sella Martin: September 27, 1832-August 11, 1876 -- Elizabeth Akers Allen: October 9, 1832-August 7, 1911 -- John L. McCreery: December 2, 1835-September 6, 1906 -- Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt: August 11, 1836-December 22, 1919 -- Thomas Bailey Aldrich: November 11, 1836-March 19, 1907 -- Fanny Jackson Coppin: October 15, 1837-January 21, 1913 -- John Willis Menard: April 3, 1838-October 8, 1893 -- Laura Redden Searing (Howard Glyndon): February 9, 1839-August 10, 1923 |
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John A. Joyce: July 4, 1842-January 18, 1915 -- Walter H. Brooks: August 30, 1851-July 6, 1945 -- Jeanie Gould Lincoln: May 28, 1855?-August 8, 1921 -- T. Thomas Fortune: October 3, 1856-June 2, 1928 -- Part III: Poets of Moral Persuasion -- Daniel Alexander Payne: February 24, 1811-November 2, 1893 -- Christopher Pearse Cranch: March 8, 1813-January 20, 1892 -- Jane Grey Swisshelm: December 6, 1815-July 22, 1884 -- Anna Hanson Dorsey: December 12, 1815-December 26, 1896 -- Charles Astor Bristed (Carl Benson): October 6, 1820-January 14, 1874 |
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Caroline Healey Dall: June 22, 1822-December 17, 1912 -- Madeleine Vinton Dahlgren: July 13, 1825-May 28, 1889 -- Solomon G. Brown: 1829?-June 26, 1906 -- Mary Abigail Dodge (Gail Hamilton): March 31, 1833-August 17, 1896 -- Henry McNeal Turner: February 1, 1834-May 8, 1915 -- Mary Emily Neeley Bradley: November 29, 1835-April 24, 1898 -- Margaret Louisa Sullivan Burke: February 1836-March 16, 1917 -- Mary Clemmer Ames: May 6, 1831-August 18, 1884 -- Rose Elizabeth Cleveland: June 13, 1846-November 22, 1918 -- Marian Longfellow O'Donoghue (Miriam Lester): April 1, 1849-January 23, 1924 |
| Summary |
"A collection of the great poems from our nation's capital, from its founding up to the early twentieth century"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 02, 2020) |
| Subject |
American poetry -- Washington (D.C.)
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American poetry -- 1783-1850.
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American poetry -- 19th century.
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American poetry -- 20th century.
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POETRY / Anthologies (multiple authors)
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American poetry
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| SUBJECT |
Washington (D.C.) -- Poetry
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| Subject |
Washington (D.C.)
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| Genre/Form |
Poetry
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Roberts, Kim, 1961- editor
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| LC no. |
2020014426 |
| ISBN |
9780813944760 |
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0813944767 |
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