Selected Poems of Frederick Goddard Tuckerman

by Frederick Goddard Tuckerman and Stephanie Burt

Book Overview

Unlike Whitman, Dickinson, or Wordsworth, Frederick Goddard Tuckerman (1821-1873) never wanted to start a revolution in poetry. Nor did he--like Longfellow or his friend Tennyson--capture or ever try to represent the spirit of his age. Yet he remains one of America's most passionate, moving, and technically accomplished poets of the nineteenth century: a New Englander through and through, a poet of the outdoors, wandering fields and wooded hillsides...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674050487
• ISBN13: 9780674050488
• Release Date: April 2010
• Publisher: Belknap Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.6" x 8.7"