Name/Title
Poets of the Civil WarEntry/Object ID
2018.017.019Description
A collection of Civil War poems edited and arranged by J.D. McClatchy for the American Poets Project. "Grief, indignation, pride, courage, patriotic fervor, ultimately reconciliation and healing: the poetry of the Civil War evokes unforgettably the emotions that roiled America in its darkest hour."
Poets include:
William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878)
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1883)
William Gilmore Simms (1806-1870)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)
John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892)
Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894)
Julia Ward Howe (1819-1910)
James Russell Lowell (1819-1891)
Herman Melville (1819-1891)
Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
Margaret Junkin Preston (1820-1897)
Henry Howard Brownell (1820-1872)
Thomas Buchanan Read (1822-1872)
Frances Orray Ticknor (1822-1874)
George Henry Boker (1823-1890)
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1825-1911)
John W. De Forest (1826-1906)
Ethel Lynn Beers (1827-1879)
Francis Miles Finch (1827-1907)
Henry Timrod (1828-1867)
Fitz-James O'Brien (1828-1862)
Silas Weir Mitchell (1829-1914)
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
Paul Hamilton Hayne (1830-1886)
Augusta Cooper Bristol (1835-1910)
Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836-1907)
Bret Harte (1836-1902)
Abram Joseph Ryan (1838-1886)
James Ryder Randall (1839-1908)
Nathaniel Southgate Shaler (1841-1906)
Kate Brownlee Sherwood (1841-1914)
Sidney Lanier (1842-1881)
Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)Collection
Local AuthorsBook Details
Author
McClatchy, J.D.Date Published
2005