AMERICAN ANTHOLOGY

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RITICAL

SELECTIONS ILLUSTRATING THE EDITOR'S CRITICA REVIEW OF AMERICAN POETRY IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY

1787-1900

BOSTON AND NEW YORK

HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY

The Riverside Press Cambridge

Copyright, 1900,

BY EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN.

All rights reserved.

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Goose Sonnets;" Laura E. Richards: "Where Helen Sits; " A. B. Saxton: "The First Step;
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Thompson: "High Tide at Gettysburg,'
," "Come Love or Death;" L. F. Tooker:
Fight," "His Quest; " Ella Wheeler Wilcox: "Recrimination;" R. B. Wilson: "Such is
the Death the Soldier dies;" G. E. Woodberry: "On a Portrait of Columbus," "America to
England;" William Young: "Judith."

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