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The fifth segment of a marathon five-hour poetry reading of selections from American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century, published by The Library of America. This segment features folk songs and popular rhymes; political poems by Emma Lazarus, Stuart Merrill, and Adah Isaacs Mencken; meditations by George Santayana, Ernest Fenollosa, Madison Cawein and Edith Wharton; the harbingers of modernism: Stephen Crane, Edwin Arlington Robinson and Trumbull Stickney; and, in closing, a Navajo night chant and "American the Beautiful."

The third segment of a marathon five-hour poetry reading of selections from American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century, published by The Library of America. This segment features poetry of the Civil War: poems about the portents of war by John Greenleaf Whittier, James Russell Lowell and Herman Melville; poems about the war by Julia Ward Howe, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Whittier and Melville; the aftermath of the war in poems by Sidney Lanier and Walt Whitman; and a selection of Emily Dickinson's poems of the period.

The second segment of a marathon five-hour poetry reading of selections from American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century, published by The Library of America. This segment features the New England poets John Greenleaf Whittier. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Ralph Waldo Emerson; the transcendentalists Jones Very, Henry David Thoreau, Margaret Fuller, and Christopher Pearse Cranch; the Southern poets Thomas Holley Chivers, James Mathewes Legaré and Edgar Allan Poe; and Walt Whitman.

The fourth segment of a marathon five-hour poetry reading of selections from American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century, published by The Library of America. This segment features postwar humor and dialect poems by Charles Edward Carryl, Charles Godfrey Leland, and George Washington Cable; the African-American poets Albery Allson Whitman and Paul Laurence Dunbar; an excerpt from John Greenleaf Whittier's classic "Snowbound," the lyric poets Sidney Lanier, Emma Lazarus and William Dean Howells; sonnets by Frederick Goddard Tuckerman; and poems by Herman Melville and Mark Twain.