New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
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- The Cambridge History of American Poetry offers a comprehensive exploration of the development of American poetic traditions from their beginnings until the end of the twentieth century. Bringing together the insights of fifty distinguished scholars, this literary history emphasizes the complex roles that poetry has played in American cultural and intellectual life, detailing the variety of ways in which both public and private forms of poetry have met the needs of different communities at different times. The Cambridge History of American Poetry recognizes the existence of multiple traditions and a dramatically fluid canon, providing current perspectives on both major authors and a number of representative figures whose work embodies the diversity of America’s democratic traditions — Provided by publisher.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 1167-1196) and index.
- Machine generated contents note: Introduction Alfred Bendixen and Stephen Burt Part I. Beginnings: Poetry before 1800: 1. Remembering Muskrat: native poetics and the American Indian oral tradition Betty Booth Donohue 2. Rhyming empires: early American poetry in languages other than English Susan Castillo Street 3. The world, the flesh, and God in puritan poetry Robert Daly 4. Confronting death: the New England puritan elegy Jeffrey A. Hammond 5. The emergence of a Southern tradition Jim Egan 6. Poetry in the time of revolution Kevin J. Hayes Part II. A New Nation: Poetry, 1800-1900: 7. Asserting a national voice Frank Gado 8. The emergence of romantic traditions Alfred Bendixen 9. Linen shreds and melons in a field: Emerson and his contemporaries Christoph Irmscher 10. Edgar Allan Poe’s lost worlds Eliza Richards 11. Longfellow in his time Virginia Jackson 12. Whittier, Holmes, Lowell and the New England tradition Michael Cohen 13. Other voices, other verses: cultures of American poetry at midcentury Mary Loeffelholz 14. American poetry fights the Civil War Faith Barrett 15. Walt Whitman’s invention of a democratic poetry Ed Folsom 16. Emily Dickinson: the poetics and practice of autonomy Wendy Martin 17. The South in Reconstruction: white and black voices John D. Kerkering 18. The ‘genteel tradition’ and its discontents Elizabeth Renker 19. Disciplined play: American children’s poetry to 1920 Angela Sorby 20. Dialect, doggerel, and local color: comic traditions and the rise of realism in popular poetry David E. E. Sloane 21. Political poets and naturalism Tyler Hoffman Part III. Forms of Modernism, 1900-50: 22. The twentieth century begins John Timberman Newcomb 23. Robert Frost and tradition Siobhan Phillips 24. T. S. Eliot Charles Altieri 25. William Carlos Williams: the shock of the familiar Bob Perelman 26. Finding ‘only words’ mysterious: reading Mina Loy (and H. D.) in America Cristanne Miller 27. Marianne Moore and the printed page Robin Schulze 28. The formalist modernism of
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