Poets of America

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