The Hudson River in Literature: An AnthologyArthur G. Adams State University of New York Press, 30. jun. 1980 - 424 sider This lovingly prepared anthology contains an abundance of poems and excerpts from novels and essays describing the Hudson River, work and travel on it, and life alongside it before the twentieth century. Some of these documents are the creations of well-known writers such as Washington Irving, James Fenimore Cooper, William Cullen Bryant, Edgar Allan Poe, and Walt Whitman. Others were written by lesser-known writers whose work has long been out of print or available only as part of their collected works. From Whitman's "mast-hemm'd Manhattan" to Nathaniel Park Willis's "sabbath solitude" on upstate riverbanks, the modern reader will find still-accurate descriptions of the physical river itself. The many excerpts that describe particular aspects of Hudson life—Indian canoes, Dutch farms, steamboat excursions, and the majestic scenery—allow the modern reader to visualize the river at a time when it dominated life in eastern New York. By providing an especially vivid impression of New York State's history and heritage, this volume will fascinate and inform residents of the Hudson Valley and all those who love its river. |
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... Dutch called Hendrich Hudson , steering his little yacht , the Halve - Mane , for the first time through the Highlands ! Imagine his anxiety for the channel , forgotten as he gazed up at the towering rocks , and round the green shores ...
... Dutch called Hendrich Hudson , steering his little yacht , the Halve - Mane , for the first time through the Highlands ! Imagine his anxiety for the channel , forgotten as he gazed up at the towering rocks , and round the green shores ...
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... Dutch farms , steamboat excursions , and the majestic scenery of the Hudson - allow the mod- ern reader to imagine the people who lived along and travelled the river and how they felt about it . Contents PART I. EARLY REGIONAL WRITERS ...
... Dutch farms , steamboat excursions , and the majestic scenery of the Hudson - allow the mod- ern reader to imagine the people who lived along and travelled the river and how they felt about it . Contents PART I. EARLY REGIONAL WRITERS ...
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... Dutch national poet . His poems were didactic and moralizing in nature and dealt with such aspects of home life as the ethics of marriage and table manners . He served as spokesman for Dutch Calvinistic culture and he was affectionately ...
... Dutch national poet . His poems were didactic and moralizing in nature and dealt with such aspects of home life as the ethics of marriage and table manners . He served as spokesman for Dutch Calvinistic culture and he was affectionately ...
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... Dutch , and hee beat him ashore in English , which set all the company in a rage ; so that wee had much ado to get the surgeon aboarde . I told the master of it , but hee bade mee let it alone , for ( said hee , ) the surgeon had a ...
... Dutch , and hee beat him ashore in English , which set all the company in a rage ; so that wee had much ado to get the surgeon aboarde . I told the master of it , but hee bade mee let it alone , for ( said hee , ) the surgeon had a ...
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... Dutch , than whom there never was a people better at smelling out rich vales and fat alluvions . Here the race subsists unadulterated to the present time . The sons are cast in the same moulds with the father and grandfather ; the ...
... Dutch , than whom there never was a people better at smelling out rich vales and fat alluvions . Here the race subsists unadulterated to the present time . The sons are cast in the same moulds with the father and grandfather ; the ...
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Afloat and Ashore excerpts | 165 |
The Last of the Mohicans excerpts | 209 |
William Cullen Bryant | 218 |
Henry Wheeler Shaw Josh Billings | 303 |
Walt Whitman | 315 |
Susan Bogert Warner Elizabeth Wetherell | 321 |
Wallace Bruce Thrusty McQuill | 329 |
Hamilton Wright Mabie | 335 |
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Albany American Anneke bank beautiful boat bright cakes called Catskill Catskill Mountain clouds dark distance Dolph door Dutch eyes fear feet floating George Pope Morris green Guert hand haunted head heard heart Henry Greene Herman Mordaunt Highlands hills horses hour Hudson hundred Ichabod Idlewild Indian island James Kirke Paulding ladies land light live look Mary Wallace miles morning mountain Nathaniel Parker Willis nature neighborhood never Newburgh night nose party passed picturesque poem reach Rip Van Winkle river road rocks round sail scene scenery seemed seen shore side Sleepy Hollow sleigh sloop soon spirit spot spring stood story stream street Sybrandt thing thou thought town traveller trees turned village Washington Washington Irving West Point whole wild wind window wing Winkle woods York young