American poetry and prose - Norman Foerster (compilador)

American poetry and prose

Norman Foerster (compilador)

Editorial Houghton Mifflin Company

1934

En inglés

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1459 páginas

Impreso en Massachusetts (Estados Unidos)

✶ ESTADO: 9/10. Muy buen estado.

Encuadernación con desgastes. Por dentro en excelente estado.

✶ AGRADECIMIENTOS:

Al planear el contenido de esta edición revisada y ampliada de American Poetry and Prose, he recibido el beneficio de sugerencias generosamente ofrecidas por el decano Kenneth B. Murdock, de la Universidad de Harvard, el profesor Stanley T. Williams, de la Universidad de Yale, el difunto profesor William B. Cairns, de la Universidad de Wisconsin, y el Dr. Henry Seidel Canby, editor del Saturday Review of Literature. Los dos mapas impresos en las guardas se los debo al Dr. William P. Fenn, jefe del departamento de lenguas extranjeras de la Universidad de Nanking, China. En todas las etapas de preparación del libro me he valido de la ayuda del Dr. Wilbur Lang Schramm, de la Universidad de Iowa, cuyo cuidado y criterio resultaron invalorables, aunque queda completamente libre de responsabilidad por los defectos de la obra.

Por las fechas de composición en el campo de las letras contemporáneas estoy en deuda con los siguientes autores: Mr. Sherwood Anderson, Mr. Stephen Vincent Benét, Mr. James Branch Cabell, Miss Willa Cather, Mr. Theodore Dreiser, T. S. Eliot, Esq., Mrs. Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Mr. Robert Frost, Mr. Robinson Jeffers, Mr. William Ellery Leonard, Mr. Sinclair Lewis, Vachel Lindsay, Amy Lowell, Mr. Archibald MacLeish, Mr. H. L. Mencken, Mr. Eugene O’Neill, Mr. Edwin Arlington Robinson y Mr. Carl Sandburg. En todo el volumen, las fechas de composición se indican en letra cursiva, las fechas de publicación en letra redonda.

Corresponde expresar un cordial agradecimiento a varias personas y editoriales por permitirme reimprimir selecciones de libros cuyos derechos de autor poseen:

A The Bobbs-Merrill Company, por los poemas de Neighborly Poems, de James Whitcomb Riley, copyright, 1891; Poems Here at Home, copyright, 1893; y Morning, copyright, 1907. A Mr. Irving Babbitt, por la selección de On Being Creative and Other Essays. A Messrs. Brandt and Brandt, como agentes de Mr. Stephen Vincent Benét y Miss Edna St. Vincent Millay: por la selección de John Brown’s Body, de Mr. Benét, publicada por Doubleday, Doran and Company, copyright, 1927, 1928; y de Renascence and Other Poems, de Miss Millay, publicada por Harper and Brothers, copyright, 1917, por Edna St. Vincent Millay; de Second April, publicada por Harper and Brothers, copyright, 1921, por Edna St. Vincent Millay; de The Harp Weaver and Other Poems, publicada por Harper and Brothers, copyright, 1920, 1921, 1923, por Edna St. Vincent Millay; de Fatal Interview, publicada por Harper and Brothers, copyright, 1931, por Edna St. Vincent Millay. A The Century Company, por la selección de Abraham Lincoln: A History, de John G. Nicolay y John Hay. A Doubleday, Doran and Company Inc., por la selección de The Pit, de Frank Norris, copyright, 1903; por las selecciones de The Writings of Colonel William Byrd, editado por J. S. Bassett; por las selecciones, tanto de poesía como de prosa, de los escritos de Walt Whitman; y por un cuento de The Four Million, de O. Henry. A Mr. Theodore Dreiser, por el cuento de Free and Other Stories, publicado por Liveright, Inc., copyright, 1918. A Faber and Faber, Ltd., por los poemas de T. S. Eliot. A Harcourt, Brace and Company, Inc., por el capítulo de Babbitt, de Sinclair Lewis. Copyright, 1922, por Harcourt, Brace and Company, Inc. A Harper and Brothers, por el cuento de Main-Travelled Roads, de Hamlin Garland; por las selecciones de Innocents Abroad, Huckleberry Finn y Life on the Mississippi, de Mark Twain; y por el cuento de A Humble Romance and Other Stories, de Mary Wilkins Freeman. A Henry Holt and Company, por los poemas de A Boy’s Will, North of Boston, Mountain Interval, New Hampshire y West-Running Brook, de Robert Frost; por el cuento de Hillsboro People, de Dorothy Canfield Fisher; por los poemas de Chicago Poems y Cornhuskers, de Carl Sandburg; y por la conferencia de The Frontier in American History, de F. J. Turner. A Houghton Mifflin Company, por las selecciones de Hawthorne, Emerson, Thoreau, Longfellow, Lowell, Holmes, Whittier, Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Lafcadio Hearn, John Fiske, Edward Rowland Sill, Bret Harte, John Hay, Joel Chandler Harris, Mary N. Murfree, Sarah Orne Jewett, William Vaughn Moody, Henry Adams, Paul E. More, Amy Lowell y Archibald MacLeish. A Miss Mildred Howells y Mr. John Mead Howells, por las selecciones de The Rise of Silas Lapham y Criticism and Fiction, de William Dean Howells. A Johnson Publishing Company por las selecciones de la Memorial Edition de Poems of Henry Timrod y por “An Indian Punishment”, de The Yemassee, de William Gilmore Simms. A Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., y Miss Willa Cather, por la selección de Death Comes for the Archbishop, de Willa Cather. A Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., por los siete poemas de War is Kind, de Stephen Crane, y el cuento reimpreso de The Open Boat and Other Stories; y por las selecciones de Notes on Democracy, de H. L. Mencken. A Little, Brown and Company, por los veintinueve poemas de Emily Dickinson. A Horace Liveright, Inc., por los siete poemas de los siguientes libros de Robinson Jeffers: Roan Stallion, Tamar, and Other Poems, Thurso’s Landing y Dear Judas. Al profesor John A. Lomax por las selecciones de Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads. A Lothrop, Lee and Shepard Company, por los poemas de Paul Hamilton Hayne. A The Macmillan Company, por las selecciones de Partial Portraits y The Real Thing and Other Stories, de Henry James; el cuento de Moonface and Other Stories, de Jack London; los poemas “Cliff Klingenhagen”, “Richard Cory”, “Miniver Cheevy” y “Flammonde”, “Ben Jonson Entertains a Man from Stratford”, “The Man Against the Sky”, “Mr. Flood’s Party”, “Karma”, de Collected Poems, de Edwin Arlington Robinson; y los poemas de Collected Poems, de Vachel Lindsay. A Robert M. McBride and Company, por la selección de The Silver Stallion, de James Branch Cabell, edición Storisende. A Edwin Markham, por The Man with the Hoe. A G. P. Putnam’s Sons, por las selecciones de The Poetical Works of Joaquin Miller, editado por Stuart P. Sherman. A Random House, por la obra teatral The Emperor Jones, de Eugene O’Neill. Copyright, 1925, por Horace Liveright, Inc. Actualmente publicada por Random House, Nueva York. A The Rowfant Club of Cleveland, por las selecciones de The Dial. A Charles Scribner’s Sons, por el cuento de Old Creole Days, de George Washington Cable; por los seis poemas de The Poems of Sidney Lanier; por el cuento de The Greater Inclination, de Edith Wharton; por los poemas “Luke Havergal” y “Credo”, de The Children of the Night, de Edwin Arlington Robinson; y por la selección de A Farewell to Arms, de Ernest Hemingway. A Small, Maynard and Company, por los poemas de Richard Hovey. A Harrison Smith and Robert Haas, Inc., por la selección de These Thirteen, de William Faulkner, copyright, 1931, Harrison Smith and Robert Haas, editores. A The Viking Press, Inc., por el cuento de Winesburg, Ohio, de Sherwood Anderson, copyright, 1919, B. W. Huebsch; y los sonetos de Two Lives, de William Ellery Leonard, copyright, 1922 y 1925, B. W. Huebsch. Norman Foerster

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

In planning the contents of this revised and enlarged edition of American Poetry and Prose, I have had the benefit of suggestions generously given by Dean Kenneth B. Murdock, of Harvard University, Professor Stanley T. Williams, of Yale University, the late Professor William B. Cairns, of the University of Wisconsin, and Dr. Henry Seidel Canby, editor of the Saturday Review of Literature. The two maps printed on the lining pages I owe to Dr. William P. Fenn, head of the department of foreign languages, University of Nanking (China). At all stages in the preparation of the book I have availed myself of the aid of Dr. Wilbur Lang Schramm, of the University of Iowa, whose care and judgment proved invaluable but who is wholly free of responsibility for the defects of the work.

For dates of composition in the field of contemporary letters I am indebted to the following authors: Mr. Sherwood Anderson, Mr. Stephen Vincent Benét, Mr. James Branch Cabell, Miss Willa Cather, Mr. Theodore Dreiser, T. S. Eliot, Esq., Mrs. Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Mr. Robert Frost, Mr. Robinson Jeffers, Mr. William Ellery Leonard, Mr. Sinclair Lewis, Vachel Lindsay, Amy Lowell, Mr. Archibald MacLeish, Mr. H. L. Mencken, Mr. Eugene O’Neill, Mr. Edwin Arlington Robinson, and Mr. Carl Sandburg. Throughout the entire volume, dates of composition are indicated with italic type, dates of publication with roman type.

Cordial thanks are due a number of persons and publishing houses for allowing me to reprint selections from books of which they possess the copyright:

To The Bobbs-Merrill Company, for the poems from James Whitcomb Riley’s Neighborly Poems, copyright, 1891, Poems Here at Home, copyright, 1893, and Morning, copyright, 1907. To Mr. Irving Babbitt, for the selection from On Being Creative and Other Essays. To Messrs. Brandt and Brandt, as agents for Mr. Stephen Vincent Benét and Miss Edna St. Vincent Millay: for the selection from Mr. Benét’s John Brown’s Body, published by Doubleday, Doran and Company copyright, 1927, 1928; and from Miss Millay’s Renascence and Other Poems, published by Harper and Brothers, copyright, 1917, by Edna St. Vincent Millay; from Second April, published by Harper and Brothers, copyright, 1921, by Edna St. Vincent Millay; from The Harp Weaver and Other Poems, published by Harper and Brothers, copyright, 1920, 1921, 1923, by Edna St. Vincent Millay; from Fatal Interview, published by Harper and Brothers, copyright, 1931, by Edna St. Vincent Millay. To The Century Company, for the selection from Abraham Lincoln: A History, by John G. Nicolay and John Hay. To Doubleday, Doran and Company Inc., for the selection from The Pit, by Frank Norris, copyright, 1903; for the selections from The Writings of Colonel William Byrd, edited by J. S. Bassett; for the selections, both poetry and prose, from the writings of Walt Whitman; and for a story from The Four Million, by O. Henry. To Mr. Theodore Dreiser, for the story from Free and Other Stories, published by Liveright, Inc., copyright, 1918. To Faber and Faber, Ltd., for the poems by T. S. Eliot. To Harcourt, Brace and Company, Inc., for the chapter from Babbitt, by Sinclair Lewis. Copyright, 1922, by Harcourt, Brace and Company, Inc. To Harper and Brothers, for the story from Main-Travelled Roads, by Hamlin Garland; for the selections from Mark Twain’s Innocents Abroad, Huckleberry Finn, and Life on the Mississippi; and for the story from A Humble Romance and Other Stories by Mary Wilkins Freeman. To Henry Holt and Company, for the poems from Robert Frost’s A Boy’s Will, North of Boston, Mountain Interval, New Hampshire, and West-Running Brook; for the story from Hillsboro People, by Dorothy Canfield Fisher; for the poems from Carl Sandburg’s Chicago Poems and Cornhuskers; and for the address from The Frontier in American History, by F. J. Turner. To Houghton Mifflin Company, for the selections from Hawthorne, Emerson, Thoreau, Longfellow, Lowell, Holmes, Whittier, Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Lafcadio Hearn, John Fiske, Edward Rowland Sill, Bret Harte, John Hay, Joel Chandler Harris, Mary N. Murfree, Sarah Orne Jewett, William Vaughn Moody, Henry Adams, Paul E. More, Amy Lowell, and Archibald MacLeish. To Miss Mildred Howells and Mr. John Mead Howells, for the selections from The Rise of Silas Lapham and Criticism and Fiction, by William Dean Howells. To the Johnson Publishing Company for the selections from the Memorial Edition of Poems of Henry Timrod and for “An Indian Punishment,” from The Yemassee, by William Gilmore Simms. To Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., and Miss Willa Cather, for the selection from Death Comes for the Archbishop, by Willa Cather. To Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., for the seven poems from Stephen Crane’s War is Kind and the story reprinted from The Open Boat and Other Stories; and for the selections from Notes on Democracy, by H. L. Mencken. To Little, Brown and Company, for the twenty-nine poems by Emily Dickinson. To Horace Liveright, Inc., for the seven poems from the following books by Robinson Jeffers: Roan Stallion, Tamar, and Other Poems, Thurso’s Landing, and Dear Judas. To Professor John A. Lomax for the selections from Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads. To Lothrop, Lee and Shepard Company, for the poems by Paul Hamilton Hayne. To The Macmillan Company, for the selections from Henry James’s Partial Portraits and The Real Thing and Other Stories; the story from Moonface and Other Stories, by Jack London; the poems “Cliff Klingenhagen,” “Richard Cory,” “Miniver Cheevy,” and “Flammonde,” “Ben Jonson Entertains a Man from Stratford,” “The Man Against the Sky,” “Mr. Flood’s Party,” “Karma,” from Collected Poems, by Edwin Arlington Robinson; and the poems from Collected Poems, by Vachel Lindsay. To Robert M. McBride and Company, for the selection from James Branch Cabell’s The Silver Stallion, Storisende Edition. To Edwin Markham, for The Man with the Hoe. To G. P. Putnam’s Sons, for the selections from The Poetical Works of Joaquin Miller, edited by Stuart P. Sherman. To Random House, for the play The Emperor Jones, by Eugene O’Neill. Copyright, 1925, by Horace Liveright, Inc. Now published by Random House, New York. To The Rowfant Club of Cleveland, for the selections from The Dial. To Charles Scribner’s Sons, for the story from Old Creole Days, by George Washington Cable; for the six poems from The Poems of Sidney Lanier; for the story from The Greater Inclination, by Edith Wharton; for the poems, “Luke Havergal,” and “Credo,” from The Children of the Night, by Edwin Arlington Robinson; and for the selection from A Farewell to Arms, by Ernest Hemingway. To Small, Maynard and Company, for the poems by Richard Hovey. To Harrison Smith and Robert Haas, Inc., for the selection from These Thirteen, by William Faulkner, copyright, 1931, Harrison Smith and Robert Haas, publishers. To The Viking Press, Inc., for the story from Winesburg, Ohio, by Sherwood Anderson, copyright, 1919, B. W. Huebsch; and the sonnets from Two Lives, by William Ellery Leonard, copyright, 1922 and 1925, B. W. Huebsch. Norman Foerster

✶ INDICE:

1- The Colonial Mind

- Introduction

Captain John Smith

William Strachey

William Bradford

Thomas Morton

John and Margaret Winthrop

Nathaniel Ward

Roger Williams

The Bay Psalm Book

Anne Bradstreet

Michael Wigglesworth

The New England Primer

Mary Rowlandson

Increase Mather

Cotton Mather

Samuel Sewall

William Byrd

Jonathan Edwards

Benjamin Franklin

Ebenezer Cook

John Woolman

St. Jean de Crèvecoeur

John Dickinson

Thomas Paine

Songs and Ballads of the Revolution

George Washington

The Federalist

Thomas Jefferson

John Trumbull

Timothy Dwight

Joel Barlow

Philip Freneau

Charles Brockden Brown

2- The romantic movement

- Introduction

Washington Irving

James Fenimore Cooper

William Cullen Bryant

Edgar Allan Poe

Nathaniel Hawthorne

William Ellery Channing

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Henry Thoreau

The Dial

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

James Russell Lowell

Oliver Wendell Holmes

John Caldwell Calhoun

Daniel Webster

Harriet Beecher Stowe

John Greenleaf Whittier

Richard Henry Dana, Jr.

Herman Melville

William Hickling Prescott

John Lothrop Motley

Francis Parkman

Songs and Ballads of the War of the Secession

Abraham Lincoln

Henry Timrod

Paul Hamilton Hayne

William Gilmore Simms

Walt Whitman

3- The realistic movement

- Introduction

William Dean Howells

Henry James

John Fiske

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Edward Rowland Sill

Sidney Lanier

Emily Dickinson

The Humorists

Charles Farrar Browne

Henry Wheeler Shaw

David Ross Locke

Mark Twain

Joaquin Miller

Bret Harte

Songs and Ballads

John Hay

George Washington Cable

Lafcadio Hearn

Joel Chandler Harris

Mary Noailles Murfree

James Whitcomb Riley

Sarah Orne Jewett

Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman

Richard Hovey

Hamlin Garland

William Vaughn Moody

Edwin Markham

Stephen Crane

Frank Norris

Jack London

O. Henry

Frederick Jackson Turner

Henry Adams

Paul Elmer More

Edith Wharton

Dorothy Canfield Fisher

Edwin Arlington Robinson

Amy Lowell

Robert Frost

Vachel Lindsay

Carl Sandburg

William Ellery Leonard

Willa Cather

Sherwood Anderson

Theodore Dreiser

Sinclair Lewis

James Branch Cabell

Henry Louis Mencken

Irving Babbitt

Eugene O’Neill

T. S. Eliot

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Stephen Vincent Benét

Archibald MacLeish

Robinson Jeffers

Ernest Hemingway

William Faulkner

- A Short Bibliography

- Index of Authors and Titles

- Chronology of the Period of the Colonial Mind

- Chronology of the Period of Romanticism

- Map of Boston and Vicinity

- Chronology of the Period of Realism