19th Century American Poets
Resources for Educators, K12
Short Stories and Prose Writing
[Ralph Waldo
Emerson]
[Henry Wadworth Longfellow]
[Paul Laurence Dunbar]
Ralph Waldo Emerson
(1803-1882)
Ralph
Waldo Emerson Minister. Transcendentalist. Works Address (Divinity
School
Address); American Scholar; American Scholar Brahma (poem) Concord
Hymn.
Quotations from
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Works of Ralph Waldo
Emerson Etexts
Emerson's
Poetry Autumn; Lovesong; The Swan; others
Selected Writings of
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Nature Environment
A View on Ralph Waldo
Emerson By R. Albright. Article; discussion of views on
independence
Snow
Storm Poem; other snow links
Ralph
Waldo Emerson Brief biography
Swedenborg's Influence
on Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Henry
Wadsworth Longfellow; The Early Years Biography with link to
biography of his later life.
PAL:
Perspectives in American Literature Brief bio; bibliography
A
Day of Sunshine. Poem Full text.
Norse Ballads of Henry
Wadsworth Longfellow Full text.
Collected
Poetry 20 poems, including Evangeline, The Children's Hour, Paul
Revere's Ride, Song of Hiawatha, Snow-Flakes, A Psalm of Life; The Tide
Rises, the Tide Falls, The Village Blacksmith; plus familiar
quotations
Henry
Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
There
Was a Little Girl Text of poem
The
Tide Rises, the Tide Falls
Henry Wadsworth
Longfellow Bio; poems, Killed at the Ford and The Cumberland
The
Atlntic Monthly Poems Santa Filomena; four sonnets "On Translating
the Divina Commedia, from Three Cantos of Dante's
Paradiso, Canto XXIII
The Arrow and the
Song Lesson plan using Longfellow's poem. Cause & effect. From Ray
Saitz's Lesson Plan site
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Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906)
Poetry of Paul Laurence
Dunbar Biography, features, pictures, other links. See Collection for
text of "We Wear the Mask," "He Had His Dream," "When Dey 'Listed
Colored Soldiers," "Negro Love Song," "The Poet and His Song," "Ode to
Ethiopia," "Little Brown Baby." Also has downloadable audio by Herbert
Woodward Martin of University of Dayton
Black
Collegian. Paul Laurence Dunbar Biography
Paul
Laurence Dunbar From Duke. Biography. Site is devoted to the
work of William Grant
Still who composed the Afro-American Symphony
Dunbar House State
Memorial Dayton, OH. Picture and information
Perspectives
in American Literature (PAL) Primary works; criticism;
selected bibliography
Wright State. Paul
Laurence Dunbar Digital Text Archives Online e-texts of his
poetry, prose and librettos
Modern
English Collection. Paul Laurence Dunbar Search Author's
name. Full-text; story-Mr.
Cornelius Johnson, Office-Seeker" [1899]
American
Verse Collection. Dunbar Full-text, Lyrics of Lowly Life
[1897]
American
Verse Collection. Dunbar Full-text. Lyrics of Sunshine and
Shadow [1905]
American
Verse Collection. Dunbar Full-text; When Malindy Sings
[1903
Dunbar's
Poems "Twell
de Night is Pas'," "When I Gits Home," "An Ante-Bellum Sermon," "Ode
to Ethiopia" Full text. Used in Still's Afro-American
Symphony
Circle
Association's Paul Laurence Dunbar Biography; e-texts
Paul
Laurence Dunbar: Suggestions for
Teaching
We,
Too, Sing America Unit plan. Includes work of Langston Hughes,
Paul Laurence Dunbar and Gwendolyn Brooks. Literature, poetry, Black
History. Grades 7-12. By G. Casey Cassidy. From Yale-New Haven Lesson
Plans
A
Middle School Approach to Black Literature Unit plan by Ivory
Erkerd. Afro-American Literature for middle school or grades 9 - 10. From
Yale New Haven Lesson Plans
Harlem
Connections: Teaching Walter Dean Myers's Scorpions in Conjunction with
Paul Laurence Dunbar's The Sport of the Gods
By Mark I. West; ALAN Review, Winter 1999.
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