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 Edna St Vincent Millay, Helene Johnson, and Louise Bogan Lesley Wheeler; 29. The romantic and anti-romantic in the poetry of Wallace Stevens George Lensing; 30. Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, and the east coast projectivists Matthew Hofer; 31. Langston Hughes and his world David Chioni Moore; 32. The objectivists and the left Mark Scroggins; 33. 'All the blessings of this consuming chance': Robert Lowell, John Berryman, Theodore Roethke, and the middle generation poets David Wojahn; 34. Elizabeth Bishop, Randall Jarrell, and the lost world of real feeling Richard Flynn; 35. Writing the South Ernest Suarez; Part IV. Beyond Modernism: American Poetry, 1950-2000: 36. San Francisco and the Beats Stephen Fredman; 37. The New York school Brian Reed; 38. The uses of authenticity: four sixties poets Nick Halpern; 39. James Merrill and his circles David Bergman; 40. Science in contemporary American poetry: Ammons and others Roger Gilbert; 41. The 1970s and the 'poetry of the center' Edward Brunner; 42. Latino poetry and poetics Rigoberto Gonzalez; 43. Psychoanalytic poetics Reena Sastri; 44. Asian American poetry Joseph Jonghyun Jeon; 45. American poetry of the 1980s: the pressures of reality Lisa M. Steinman; 46. Black and blues configurations: contemporary African American poetry Walton Muyumba; 47. Amy Clampitt, 'culture' poetry, and the neo-baroque Willard Spiegelman; 48. Modern and contemporary children's poetry Joseph Thomas; 49. Multilingualism in contemporary American poetry Juliana Spahr; 50. American poetry at the end of the millennium Stephen Burt.
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The Cambridge history of American poetry. ISBN 9781107003361. Published by Cambridge University Press in 2015. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
