Extremes and Moderations: A Historical Archive of Los Angeles and Southern California Poetry
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Literary Anthology and Documentary Collection
Compiled by Ella Sterling Mighels
Ella Sterling Mighels organizes Literary California as a calendar rather than a conventional anthology. Each month becomes a crowded cabinet of poems, newspaper extracts,…
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Poetry Anthology
Edited by Augustin S. Macdonald
Augustin S. Macdonald arranges 105 poems into “Pioneer,” “Overland,” and “Present” periods, turning chronology into a theory of California poetry. The first group favors…
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Poetry Anthology
Compiled by May Wentworth
May Wentworth's 1867 anthology answers the narrowness of Bret Harte's Outcroppings through scale: 143 poems by seventy-five contributors, assembled as a record of Pacific…
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