| The kindly-earnest, brave, foreseeing man, / Sagacious, patient, dreading praise, not blame, / New birth of our new soil, the first American. |
| —“Ode Recited at the Harvard Commemoration” |
| James Russell Lowell |
Harvard Classics, Vol. 42
From Tennyson to Whitman
The 200 poems in this last of a three-volume anthology constitute 40 nineteenth-century Britons—such as Browning, Arnold and Rossetti—and Americans—from Bryant and Emerson to Poe and Longellow.
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NEW YORK: P.F. COLLIER & SON COMPANY, 1909–14
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