Poets of America

American anapestic artist ballads bard Bayard Taylor beauty Biglow blank-verse Bryant charm critical Deukalion devoted didacticism dramatic early effect effort Emerson England English essays expression faculty feeling fresh genius gift Goethe hand heart hexameter humor ideal idyllic imagination instinct kind labor land language learned Leaves of Grass less letters literary literature Longfellow Lowell Lowell's manner master measure melody ment method metrical modern mood muse native nature never original passion pieces Pindaric Poe's poems poet poet's poetic poetry prose Puritan Quaker reader rhyme riences romance scarcely seemed sense sentiment Sir Launfal song sonnets soul spirit stanzas style sure sweet taste Taylor Tennyson theme Theocritus things thou thought tion torian touch traits translation true truth ture Ulalume verse voice Walt Whitman Whitman Whittier writers written youth