Spring Phantoms: Short Prose by 19th Century British & American Authors

Herausgeber: Alexander, Robert

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Collecting 19th Century short prose, this anthology illuminates its origins, and ultimately, its importance today.

Produktdetails

• Marie Alexander Nr.22
• Verlag: White Pine Press (NY)
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. März 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 340g
• ISBN-13: 9781945680120
• ISBN-10: 1945680121
• Artikelnr.: 48925195

Autorenporträt

From 1993-2001, Robert Alexander was a contributing editor at New Rivers, where he founded the Marie Alexander Poetry Series. He has published three books of prose shorts and two of creative nonfiction. This is the sixth literary anthology he has edited.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents Robert Alexander Spring Phantoms: A Brief Introduction William Blake, 1757
1827 from The Marriage of Heaven and Hell Leigh Hunt, 1784
1859 A
Now,
Descriptive of a Hot Day Henry R. Schoolcraft, 1793
1864, and Jane Johnston Schoolcraft, 1800
1842 [trans.] Peeta Kway, The Foam-Woman: An Ottawa Legend Leelinau: A Chippewa Tale Richard H. Horne, 1802
1884 The Old Churchyard Tree: A Prose Poem Ralph W. Emerson, 1803
1882 Woods: A Prose Sonnet Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1804
1864 from Sketches from Memory from The American Notebooks Edgar A. Poe, 1809
1849 Shadow
A Parable Harriet Jacobs, 1813
1897 from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Henry David Thoreau, 1817
1862 from The Journal from Walking Walt Whitman, 1819
1892 from Specimen Days Jourdon Anderson, 1825
1907 Letter from a Freedman to His Old Master Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1828
1882 The Cup of Water Michael Scott
s Wooing Mary Mapes Dodge, 1831
1905 Our Vegetables Migratory Husbands Ada Clare [Jane McElhenney], 1834
1874 The Slave of the House Celia Thaxter, 1835
1894 from An Island Garden Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, 1844
1911 How Shall Women Dress? Mary P. Thacher [Higginson], 1844
1941 Passenger Pigeons Emma Lazarus, 1849
1887 By the Waters of Babylon: Little Poems in Prose Kate Chopin, 1850
1904 Ripe Figs An Idle Fellow The Story of an Hour The Night Came Slowly Lafacadio Hearn, 1850
1904 The Stranger Spring Phantoms Robert Louis Stevenson, 1850
1894 from Fables Grace King, 1852
1932 The Balcony Mary E. Wilkins [Freeman], 1852
1930 Pastels in Prose Oscar Wilde, 1854
1900 The Artist The Doer of Good The Disciple Olive Schreiner, 1855
1920 from Dreams Fiona Macleod [William Sharp], 1855
1905 from The Silence of Amor Alcée Fortier, 1856
1914 [trans.] The Tortoise The Devil
s Marriage James G. Huneker, 1857
1921 Nuptials Royal Mary Alicia Owen, 1858
1935 [compiler] How the Skunk Became the Terror of All Living Creatures Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1860
1935 An Extinct Angel Deserted Prisons for Animals Edith Wharton, 1862
1937 The Valley of Childish Things, and Other Emblems Florence A. Merriam [Bailey], 1863
1948 from Birds through an Opera Glass Robert W. Chambers, 1865
1933 from The Prophets
Paradise Bruce Porter, 1865
1953 The Return of Spring Gelett Burgess, 1866
1951 The Adjective Family The Mutual Advice Association The Confessions of a Yellster Ernest Dowson, 1867
1900 from Decorations in Prose Stephen Crane, 1871
1900 The Judgment of the Sage The Seaside Hotel Hop How the Donkey Lifted the Hills J. M. Synge, 1871
1909 from Translations from Petrarch: Sonnets from
Laura in Death
Harrison G. Rhodes, 1871
1929 Sketches Dora Greenwell McChesney, 1871
1912 At Old Italian Casements Max Beerbohm, 1872
1956 A Good Prince Samuel P. Carrick, 1873
1930 A Geological Parable Yone Noguchi, 1875
1947 from The Summer Cloud: Prose Poems Zitkála-á (Gertrude Simmons Bonnin), 1876
1938 from Impressions of an Indian Childhood Lord Dunsany [Edward Plunkett], 1878
1957 from Time and the Gods Holly Iglesias Biographical Sketches Bibliographic Notes