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Anaphora is the repetition of a word, phrase, or clause at the beginning of word groups occurring one after the other. Examples: (1) Give me wine, give me women and give me song. (2) For everything there is a season . . . a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted.—Bible, Ecclesiastes.
Cover of 1st Edition, Penguin, 1959 Roots (1958) is the second play by Arnold Wesker in The Wesker Trilogy. [1] The first part is Chicken Soup with Barley and the final play is I'm Talking about Jerusalem. [2]
The Oregon Trail: Sketches of Prairie and Rocky Mountain Life (also published as The California & Oregon Trail) is a book written by Francis Parkman.It was initially serialized in twenty-one installments in Knickerbocker's Magazine (1847–49) and subsequently published as a book in 1849.
William Cullen Bryant (November 3, 1794 – June 12, 1878) was an American romantic poet, journalist, and long-time editor of the New York Evening Post.Born in Massachusetts, he started his career as a lawyer but showed an interest in poetry early in his life.
The frontispiece and title page of Commerce of the Prairies A Map of the Indian Territory, published in Commerce of the Prairies. Gregg's book Commerce of the Prairies, published in two volumes in 1844, is an account of his time spent as a trader on the Santa Fe Trail from 1831 to 1840 and includes commentary on the geography, botany, geology, and culture of New Mexico. [6]
Picturesque America was a two-volume set of books describing and illustrating the scenery of America, which grew out of an earlier series in Appleton's Journal.It was published by D. Appleton and Company of New York in 1872 and 1874 and edited by the romantic poet and journalist William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878), who also edited the New York Evening Post.
The Prairie: A Tale (1827) is a novel by James Fenimore Cooper, the third novel written by him featuring Natty Bumppo. His fictitious frontier hero Bumppo is never ...
"A Forest Hymn" is an 1824 poem written by William Cullen Bryant, [1] which has been called one of Bryant's best poems, [2] and "one of the best nature poems of that age". [3] It was first published in Boston in the United States Literary Gazette along with several other poems written by Bryant.