In Britain, nineteenth-century poetry began with Romanticism and ended in Decadence, with the high Victorian poetry of Tennyson, Browning, and Christina Rossetti coming in the middle. In the United States, meanwhile, Longfellow, Whitman, and Emily Dickinson helped to shape the course of nineteenth-century American poetry. Below, we introduce ten of […]
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I’d like to have the poem by Walt Whitman …and our hearts though stout and brave, still like muffled drums are beating funeral marches to the grave.
Alfred Farris