| Description |
xxxi, 894 pages ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Anne Bradstreet and Edward Taylor / Francis Murphy -- Early African American poetry / Carolivia Herron -- The epic in the nineteenth century / John McWilliams -- Longfellow in the aftermath of modernism / Dana Gioia -- The transcendentalist poets / Lawrence Buell -- Emily Dickinson / Cynthia Griffin Wolff -- Walt Whitman / Donald Pease -- Edgar Allan Poe / Jeffrey Meyers -- Lowell, Teasedale, Wylie, Millay, and Bogan / Jeanne Larsen -- Women poets and the emergence of modernism / Margaret Dickie -- Robert Frost and the poetry of survival / Jay Parini -- Ezra Pound's imagist aesthetics : Lustra to Mauberley / J.T. Barbarese -- T.S. Eliot / William Pritchard -- Marianne Moore and Elizabeth Bishop / Jeredith Merrin -- Wallace Stevens / Helen Vendler -- William Carlos Williams / Christopher MacGowan -- Hart Crane's difficult passage / J.T. Barbarese -- The poetry of the Harlem renaissance / Arnold Rampersad -- Warren, with Ransom and Tate / Patricia Wallace -- American Auden / Claude J. Summers -- The twentieth-century long poem / Lynn Keller -- Public music / W.S. DiPiero -- Beat poetry and the San Francisco poetry renaissance / Ann Charters -- John Berryman, Theodore Roethke, and the elegy / Lea Baechler -- What was confessisonal poetry? / Diane Wood Middlebrook -- The postconfessional lyric / Gregory Orr -- The black arts poets / William W. Cook -- Nature's refrain in American poetry / John Elder -- Native American poetry / Lucy Maddox -- James Merrill and John Ashbery / John Shoptaw -- The visionary poetics of Philip Levine and Charles Wright / Edward Hirsch. |
| Summary |
From Ann Bradstreet and Edward Taylor to Philip Levine and Charles Wright, this comprehensive general history of American poetry examines the American epic, Transcendentalism, the Modernists, the Fugitives, the Beat poets, the confessional poets, and all those in between. |
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Bradstreet, Anne, 1612?-1672.
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Taylor, Edward, 1642-1729.
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Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Lowell, James Russell, 1819-1891 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Teasdale, Sara, 1884-1933.
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Millay, Edna St. Vincent, 1892-1950.
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Moore, Marianne, 1887-1972.
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Wylie, Elinor, 1885-1928.
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Crane, Stephen, 1871-1900 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Frost, Robert, 1874-1963 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Williams, William Carlos, 1883-1963 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Warren, Robert Penn, 1905-1989 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Stevens, Wallace, 1879-1955 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Bishop, Elizabeth, 1911-1979 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Ransom, John Crowe, 1888-1974.
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Auden, W. H. (Wystan Hugh), 1907-1973 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Berryman, John, 1914-1972.
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Roethke, Theodore, 1908-1963.
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Ashbery, John, 1927-2017 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Levine, Philip, 1928-2015.
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Baraka, Amiri, 1934-2014.
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American poetry -- History and criticism.
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American poetry -- History and criticism.
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Ashbery, John, 1927-2017 (OCoLC)fst01427403
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Auden, W. H. (Wystan Hugh), 1907-1973 (OCoLC)fst00035314
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Baraka, Amiri, 1934-2014 (OCoLC)fst01774906
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Berryman, John, 1914-1972 (OCoLC)fst00046971
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Bishop, Elizabeth, 1911-1979 (OCoLC)fst00034751
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Bradstreet, Anne, 1612?-1672 (OCoLC)fst00047355
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Crane, Stephen, 1871-1900 (OCoLC)fst00068770
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Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886 (OCoLC)fst00035276
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Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965 (OCoLC)fst00030202
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Frost, Robert, 1874-1963 (OCoLC)fst00030024
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Levine, Philip, 1928-2015 (OCoLC)fst00028870
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Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882 (OCoLC)fst00035868
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Lowell, James Russell, 1819-1891 (OCoLC)fst00038881
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Millay, Edna St. Vincent, 1892-1950 (OCoLC)fst00036957
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Moore, Marianne, 1887-1972 (OCoLC)fst00005315
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Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 (OCoLC)fst00032674
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Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972 (OCoLC)fst00029337
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Ransom, John Crowe, 1888-1974 (OCoLC)fst00017962
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Roethke, Theodore, 1908-1963 (OCoLC)fst00036628
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Stevens, Wallace, 1879-1955 (OCoLC)fst00040329
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Taylor, Edward, 1642-1729 (OCoLC)fst00002652
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Teasdale, Sara, 1884-1933 (OCoLC)fst00005302
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Warren, Robert Penn, 1905-1989 (OCoLC)fst00028653
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Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 (OCoLC)fst00039575
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Williams, William Carlos, 1883-1963 (OCoLC)fst00036533
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Wylie, Elinor, 1885-1928 (OCoLC)fst00008107
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American poetry. (OCoLC)fst00807348
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Dichtkunst.
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Amerikaans.
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American poetry -- History and criticism.
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| Indexed Term |
English poetry History |
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United States |
| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
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| Added Author |
Parini, Jay, editor.
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Millier, Brett C., 1958- editor.
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| ISBN |
0231078366 (acid-free paper) |
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9780231078368 (acid-free paper) |
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0585041547 (electronic book) |
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9780585041544 (electronic book) |
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