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Walter C. Bronson’s anthology gathers American poems spanning 1625 to 1892, giving readers a historical survey of the country’s verse across generations. In Longfellow’s account of Hiawatha fishing, the canoe, squirrel companion, and armored sturgeon are drawn with the steady rhythm of a spoken tale. A speaker in another poem watches a star disappear and struggles to make a song for the dead. The contrast between narrative song and mourning lyric gives the collection a sense of how widely American poetry can vary.
