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Title

Old Glory : American war poems from the Revolutionary War to the war on terrorism / edited by Robert Hedin ; with a foreword by Walter Cronkite.

Publication

New York : Persea Books, ©2004.

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Details

Additional Authors

Hedin, Robert, 1949-

Description

xxviii, 370 pages; 24 cm

Summary

"This anthology encompasses the entire tradition of American war poetry, from our nation's birth in the Revolutionary War to the present-day War on Terrorism. Some of the most memorable and enduring poems in our literature have been written about war, and many of our major poets are represented in these pages. From "Paul Revere's Ride" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow to Quincy Troupe's "Transcircularities," this gathering of nearly two hundred poems establishes the standard for the genre while providing a historical record." "Narratives, meditations, elegies, lamentations, odes, tributes, and battle hymns - all deeply felt - reflect love of country, sacrifice, tragedy, glory, and sometimes disillusionment and dissent. This is poetry that establishes and preserves our national continuity, a poetry that remembers and gives voice to those who have fallen silent."--Jacket.

Subject

• War poetry, American
• Kriegslyrik
• United States > History, Military > Poetry
• United States
• USA
• Englisch

Genre/Form

• poetry.
• Military history.
• Poetry.
• Poésie.

Note

• "A Karen & Michael Braziller book."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 347-353) and index.

Contents

Revolutionary War -- Paul Revere's Ride / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- Yankee Doodle / Anonymous -- To His Excellency General Washington / Phillis Wheatley -- Warren's Address to the American Soldiers / John Pierpont -- Song of Marion's Men / William Cullen Bryant -- Black Samson of Brandywine / Paul Laurence Dunbar -- The Yankee Man-of-War / Anonymous -- from The British Prison Ship / Philip Freneau -- To the Memory of the Brave Americans / Philip Freneau -- from The Columbiad / Joel Barlow -- New England's Dead / Isaac McLellan -- Concord Hymn / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- War of 1812 -- from The Battle of Niagara / John Neal -- On the Conflagrations at Washington / Philip Freneau -- The Star-Spangled Banner / Francis Scott Key -- Old Ironsides / Oliver Wendell Holmes -- Mexican-American War -- Ode, Inscribed to W.H. Channing / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- The Angels of Buena Vista / John Greenleaf Whittier -- from The Biglow Papers / James Russell Lowell -- When with Pale Cheek and Sunken Eye I Sang / Henry David Thoreau -- Civil War -- In the Defences / Elizabeth Akers Allen -- John Brown's Body / Anonymous -- The March into Virginia / Herman Melville -- A Utilitarian View of the Monitor's Fight / Herman Melville -- The College Colonel / Herman Melville -- Battle Hymn of the Republic / Julia Ward Howe -- Barbara Frietchie / John Greenleaf Whittier -- Fredericksburg / Thomas Bailey Aldrich -- The Dying Words of Stonewall Jackson / Sidney Lanier -- The High Tide at Gettysburg / Will Henry Thompson -- The Battlefield / Lloyd Mifflin -- Corporal / Ambrose Bierce -- Sheridan's Ride / Thomas Buchanan Read -- Cavalry Crossing a Ford / Walt Whitman -- Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night / Walt Whitman -- The Wound-Dresser / Walt Whitman -- My Triumph Lasted Till the Drums / Emily Dickinson -- My Portion Is Defeat Today / Emily Dickinson -- Ode to the Confederate Dead / Allen Tate -- Memorial Wreath / Dudley Randall -- For the Union Dead / Robert Lowell -- Hunting Civil War Relics at Nimblewill Creek / James Dickey -- Indian Wars -- Unknown / William Heyen -- Wildwest / Archibald MacLeish -- A Tribute to Chief Joseph (1840?-1904) / Duane Niatum -- Two War Songs / Sitting Bull -- Last Song / Sitting Bull -- Interpolation Sounds / Walt Whitman -- The Whole World Is Coming / Traditional -- Spanish-American War -- Harry Wilmans / Edgar Lee Masters -- On a Soldier Fallen in the Philippines / William Vaughn Moody -- Do Not Weep, Maiden, for War Is Kind / Stephen Crane -- First World War -- Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight / Vachel Lindsay -- The Aisne (1914-15) / Alan Seeger -- Rendezvous / Alan Seeger -- Verdun / Robert Lowell -- Trophy, W.W.I / Janet Lewis -- Patterns / Amy Lowell -- Not to Keep / Robert Frost -- i sing of Olaf glad and big / E.E. Cummings -- my sweet old etcetera / E.E. Cummings -- Chateau de Soupir, 1917 / Malcolm Cowley -- In the Dordogne / John Peale Bishop -- Champs d'Honneur / Ernest Hemingway -- Killed Piave--July 8--1918 / Ernest Hemingway -- The Death of a Soldier / Wallace Stevens -- Memorial Rain / Archibald MacLeish -- On Active Service / Edith Wharton -- My Brother / Mikhail Naimy -- To My Brother Killed: Haumont Wood: October, 1918 / Louise Bogan -- Mothers / Kay Boyle -- The People's Cry / Kay Boyle -- from Hugh Selwyn Mauberley / Ezra Pound -- Triumphal March / T.S. Eliot -- Grass / Carl Sandburg -- There Will Come Soft Rains / Sara Teasdale -- The Wars and the Unknown Soldier / Conrad Aiken -- Second World War -- Roosters / Elizabeth Bishop -- Czecho-Slovakia / Edna St. Vincent Millay -- The Moon and the Night and the Men / John Berryman -- The Last Picnic / Stanley Kunitz -- Jim Crow's Last Stand / Langston Hughes -- War, the Destroyer! / William Carlos Williams -- After Experience Taught Me ... / W.D. Snodgrass -- The U.S. Soldier with the Japanese Skull / Winfield Townley Townley Scott -- The Searchlight / Isabella Gardner -- The Fury of Aerial Bombardment / Richard Eberhart -- The War in the Air / Howard Nemerov -- Losses / Randall Jarrell -- The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner / Randall Jarrell -- Memories of West Street and Lepke / Robert Lowell -- No Man Knows War / Edwin Rolfe -- World War II / Edward Field -- Un Bel Di Vedremo / Kenneth Rexroth -- Remembering That Island / Thomas McGrath -- The Pit / Lucien Stryk -- Portrait from the Infantry / Alan Dugan -- Troop Train / Karl Shapiro -- Vaudeville / Lincoln Kirstein -- Carentan O Carentan / Louis Simpson -- Survival: Infantry / George Oppen -- First Snow in Alsace / Richard Wilbur -- Christmas 1944 / H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) -- Christmas, 1944 / Denise Levertov -- In Distrust of Merits / Marianne Moore -- Battle Report / Harvey Shapiro -- Prodigy / Charles Simic -- Letter to Simic from Boulder / Richard Hugo -- Buchenwald, Near Weimar / Joseph Langland -- "More Light! More Light!" / Anthony Hecht -- Easter Eve 1945 / Muriel Rukeyser -- Return / Robert Creeley -- A Box Comes Home / John Ciardi -- V-J Day / John Ciardi -- Victory / James Dickey -- War Memoir: Jazz, Don't Listen to It at Your Own Risk / Bob Kaufman -- To World War Two / Kenneth Koch -- Korean War -- On a Certain Engagement South of Seoul / Hayden Carruth -- A Korean Woman Seated by a Wall / William Meredith -- Viewing Picasso's Massacre in Korea / Dale Jacobsen -- The Circle / Keith Wilson -- Memory of a Victory / Keith Wilson -- A Sheaf of Percussion Fire / Rolando Hinojosa -- Re-runs / Reg Saner -- Trying to Remember People I Never Really Knew / William Childress -- Repository / James Magner, Jr. -- Korean Litany / Howard Fast -- Ode for the American Dead in Asia / Thomas McGrath -- Vietnam War -- A Short History of the Vietnam War Years / Dick Allen -- War Profit Litany / Allen Ginsberg -- Up Rising / Robert Duncan -- Bad Year, Bad War: A New Year's Card, 1969 / Robert Penn Warren -- You Could Make a Song of It, A Dirge of It, A Heartbreaker of It / Daniel Berrigan -- The Birds of Vietnam / Hayden Carruth -- The Asians Dying / W.S. Merwin -- Two Villages / Grace Paley -- Counting Small-Boned Bodies / Robert Bly -- Vietnam #4 / Carence Major -- Christmas Bells, Saigon / Walt McDonald -- AK-47 / Michael Casey -- For the Old Man / Michael Casey -- Search and Destroy / Dale Ritterbusch -- Caves / Michael S. Harper -- Communique / Yusef Komunyakaa -- Song of Napalm / Bruce Weigl -- The Dead Shall Be Raised Incorruptible / Galway Kinnell -- We / Karen Swenson -- What Were They Like? / Denise Levertov -- News Update / John Balaban -- For a Coming Extinction / W.D. Ehrhart -- Places Without Names / Philip Booth -- At the Vietnam War Memorial, Washington, D.C. / Robert Dana -- Gulf War -- The Winter of Desert Storm / Walt McDonald -- On a Line from Valery / Carolyn Kizer -- from Ribbons: The Gulf War / William Heyen -- Ode to X / Page Dougherty -- Section Three / Albert Goldbarth -- Favorite Iraqi Soldier / Stephen Dobyns -- Old Glory / William Stafford -- Operations: Desert Shield, Desert Storm / Eleanor Wilner -- War on Terrorism -- Loving This Earth / Judith Minty -- Ground Zero / Robert Creeley -- Complicity / Michael Waters -- The Names / Billy Collins -- Speak Out / Lawrence Ferlinghetti -- For the New Year / Timothy Liu -- Call and Answer / Robert Bly -- Found in the Free Library / Eleanor Wilner -- Talking Heads / W.D. Snodgrass -- Cyclamen / Shirley Kaufman -- War / C.K. Williams -- The School Among the Ruins / Adrienne Rich -- Transcirularities / Quincy Troupe.

ISBN

• 0892553103
• 9780892553105

LCCN

2004001906

OCLC

• ocm54372277
• 54372277
• SCSB-8784785

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library