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Yosemite, an Ode

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Published in 1916, George Sterling's poem honors Yosemite Valley in California as a shrine to Beauty, set among cliffs, summits and waterfalls.

The speaker admits that art can give only broken news of such beauty, and traces how people slowly learned to name it, in dawn, still water and a loved face.

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George Sterling

George Sterling was a prominent American poet, an acclaimed playwright, and a proponent of Bohemianism during the first quarter of the twentieth century. His work was admired by writers as diverse as Ambrose Bierce, Theodore Dreiser, Robinson Jeffers, Sinclair Lewis, Jack London, H. P.

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Author: George Sterling
Reading time: About 10 minutes
Pages: 26
Language: English
Genre: Modern Poetry
Formats: PDF, EPUB, MOBI, Read online