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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... hand at an epic poem entitled " The Backwoodsman . " In 1828 he wrote a pastoral tale similar to Irving's Legend of Sleepy Hollow entitled Cobus Yerks , also set in Tarrytown . Another tale entitled Dyspepsy was written in 1829. He ...
... hand at an epic poem entitled " The Backwoodsman . " In 1828 he wrote a pastoral tale similar to Irving's Legend of Sleepy Hollow entitled Cobus Yerks , also set in Tarrytown . Another tale entitled Dyspepsy was written in 1829. He ...
Side 10
... hand with its neighbours , inasmuch as it is not uncommon to see people riding in splendid carriages , living in splendid houses , and owning a whole street , who when they come to settle with death , or their other creditors , pay the ...
... hand with its neighbours , inasmuch as it is not uncommon to see people riding in splendid carriages , living in splendid houses , and owning a whole street , who when they come to settle with death , or their other creditors , pay the ...
Side 11
... hands , and the sweat of their brows . Nor ought the unwearied pains of these liberal hearted persons , to coax them into parting with all they have , in the moral certainty of getting back a hundred , yea a thousand fold , pass without ...
... hands , and the sweat of their brows . Nor ought the unwearied pains of these liberal hearted persons , to coax them into parting with all they have , in the moral certainty of getting back a hundred , yea a thousand fold , pass without ...
Side 12
... hands than he knows what to do with . Let merchants , and tradesmen , and brokers , and hand- icraft people , and all those condemned to the labour of hands , to whom time is as money , patronize the swift boats ; and let those who are ...
... hands than he knows what to do with . Let merchants , and tradesmen , and brokers , and hand- icraft people , and all those condemned to the labour of hands , to whom time is as money , patronize the swift boats ; and let those who are ...
Side 13
... hands , if you happen to want it . Be sure to have as many different things on your plate at one time as possible , and ... hand . No matter if you are sitting at the middle of the inner side of the table , and disturb a dozen or two of ...
... hands , if you happen to want it . Be sure to have as many different things on your plate at one time as possible , and ... hand . No matter if you are sitting at the middle of the inner side of the table , and disturb a dozen or two of ...
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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