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Collectible. Text/Near New. Gilt embossed blue linen boards/NF w/rubs & light fraying to corner tips & upper/lower spine. DJ/None. Gilting to upper text edge. Sound but worn front hinge; first blank endpaper loose. PO name pencilled to 2nd fEP. Closed tears to pg 501, and, 2" loss to pg 503 by hinge. Anthology of American history poems collected and edited by author and librarian Burton Egbert Stevenson (1872 - 1962). In assembling this anthology some were included for "its historical or political interest" because it is an expression of its time and place; these verse are often marked by admirable, spontaneous energy. Others, retropective ballads so to speak ("Paul Revere's Ride", for instance), were chosen because of their power to touch the heart and grip the imagination. A fiery protest against clerical oppessors by John Greenleaf Whittier, 1835, reads: "Just God! and these are they/Who minister at thine altar, God of Right!/Men who their hands with prayer and blessing lay/On Israel's Ark of Light!/What! preach, and kidnap men?/Give thanks, and rob thy own afflicted poor?/Talk of thy glorious liberty, and then/Bolt hard the captive's door?" Poems arranged by subject matter & historical sequence; author, first line, and title indices to rear. Strong copy despite flaws. Seller Inventory # 008679
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Bibliographic Details
Title: POEMS OF AMERICAN HISTORY
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin, Boston, MA
Publication Date: 1908
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Near Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Edition: First Edition, First Thus
