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Fifty Shades of America - 50 of the best poems about America

Paul Laurence Dunbar, Vachel Lindsay, GK Chesterton, Emma Lazarus, Herman Melville, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joyce Kilmer, Willa Cather, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Anne Bradstreet, Alan Seeger, William Cullen Bryant, Edith Wharton, T S Eliot

Narrator William Hootkins, Laurel Lefkow, Ghizela Rowe

Publisher: The Copyright Group

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Summary

The Land of the Free, the Home of the Brave.  This illustrious phrase encapsulates the aspirations of America and its people.   
 
In this volume we feature 50 American poets beginning with the Colonist Anne Bradstreet in the 17th century, when American poetry was entirely rooted in its parental British forms.  From here our classic poets take us through Centuries of history, through Independence and expansion Westward, across the cities and vast landscapes of their words.  Along the journey we also meet the Imagists, the poets from the Harlem Renaissance by way of the Transcendentalists and the Fireside Poets.   
 
The giants of the poetic way loom large; Walt Whitman. Emily Dickinson, Edgar Allan Poe, Paul Laurence Dunbar and Edna St Vincent Millay.  Our rambling poetic stroll gives voice to the nation’s hopes, its dreams, its failings, its musings.   
 
We cannot hope to define America but we do provide the many changing moods and flavours of the times as we discover the essence of its soul. 
1 - Fifty Shades of America - An Introduction 
2 - A Nation's Strength by Ralph Waldo Emerson 
3 - America by Herman Melville 
4 - The New Colossus by Emma Lazarus 
5 - America the Beautiful by Katharine Lee Bates 
6 - Brothers. American Drama by James Weldon Johnson 
7 - We Wear the Mask by Paul Laurence Dunbar 
8 - The Negro Speaks of Rivers by Langston Hughes 
9 - Abraham Lincoln by James Russell Lowell 
10 - Paul Revere's Ride (The Landlord's Tale) by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 
11 - England and America by Florence T Holt 
12 - Americanisation by G K Chesterton 
13 - In Amsterdam by Eugene Field 
14 - Broadway, New York, July 1916 by George Sterling 
15 - New York at Night by Amy Lowell 
16 - Harlem by Langston Hughes 
17 - The Natives of America by Ann Plato 
18 - An Indian Summer Day On the Prairie by Vachel Lindsay 
19 - Pray To What Earth Does This Sweet Cold Belong by Henry David Thoreau 
20 - Hymn To The North Star by William Cullen Bryant 
21 - An Hymn To the Evening by Phillis Wheatley 
22 - Trees by Joyce Kilmer 
23 - from Song of Myself by Walt Whitman 
24 - Sonnet 12 by Alan Seeger 
25 - The Ancient Arteries of America by Daniel Sheehan 
26 - A Crowded Trolley Car by Elinor Wylie 
27 - The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost 
28 - Yes, I Have a Thousand Tongues by Stephen Crane 
29 - Thirteen Ways of Looking At a Blackbird by Wallace Stevens 
30 - The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe 
31 - Wild Nights, Wild Nights by Emily Dickinson 
32 - Comment by Dorothy Parker 
33 - To My Dear and Loving Husband by Anne Bradstreet 
34 - The Boy She Used To Know by Damon Runyon 
35 - Portrait D'une Femme by Ezra Pound 
36 - Sonnet 18 - I, Being Born a Woman by Edna St Vincent Millay 
37 - Evening Song by Willa Cather 
38 - I Hear America Singing by Walt Whitman 
39 - The Crowd at the Ball Game by William Carlos Williams 
40 - It Couldn't Be Done by Edgar Albert Guest 
41 - Hope is the Thing With Feathers by Emily Dickinson 
42 - Colored Hats from Tender Buttons by Gertrude Stein 
43 - Solitude by Ella Wheeler Wilcox 
44 - Sympathy by Paul Laurence Dunbar 
45 - Chaplinesque by Hart Crane 
46 - The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver by Edna St Vincent Millay 
47 - Whispers of Immortality by T S Eliot 
48 - A Grave by Edith Wharton 
49 - Bury Me In a Free Land by Frances E W Harper 
50 - To the Memory of the Americans Who Fell at Eutaw by Philip Freneau 
51 - Star Spangled Banner by Francis Scott Kay
Duration: about 2 hours (01:30:29)
Publishing date: 2019-01-01; Unabridged; Copyright Year: — Copyright Statment: —