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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... hundred spires , all coming one after the other in succession , and at last all combined in one beautiful whole , threw me almost into raptures , and entirely cured my sea sickness . Add to this , the ships , vessels and boats , of all ...
... hundred spires , all coming one after the other in succession , and at last all combined in one beautiful whole , threw me almost into raptures , and entirely cured my sea sickness . Add to this , the ships , vessels and boats , of all ...
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... hundred , yea a thousand fold , pass without due commendation , for certain it is , that if any body in New York is poor , it must be owing to their own obstinate stupidity in refusing these disinterested invitations . N. B. There are ...
... hundred , yea a thousand fold , pass without due commendation , for certain it is , that if any body in New York is poor , it must be owing to their own obstinate stupidity in refusing these disinterested invitations . N. B. There are ...
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... hundreds of feet , whence it slides or bounds to the water's edge , and is received on board its destined vessel . At other points , half way up its sides you will see the quarriers , undermining huge masses of rocks that in the lapse ...
... hundreds of feet , whence it slides or bounds to the water's edge , and is received on board its destined vessel . At other points , half way up its sides you will see the quarriers , undermining huge masses of rocks that in the lapse ...
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... hundred and eleven feet and a half high , the limbs projecting on either side more than eighty feet from the trunk , which was ten paces round . More than twenty years ago it was struck by lightning , and its old weather beaten trunk so ...
... hundred and eleven feet and a half high , the limbs projecting on either side more than eighty feet from the trunk , which was ten paces round . More than twenty years ago it was struck by lightning , and its old weather beaten trunk so ...
Side 24
... hundred yards from the village , to which we recommend the adventurers in the South American and North Carolinian mines to turn their attention . They will certainly lose money by working it , but the money will be spent at home and the ...
... hundred yards from the village , to which we recommend the adventurers in the South American and North Carolinian mines to turn their attention . They will certainly lose money by working it , but the money will be spent at home and 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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