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The Columbia history of American poetry, Jay Parini, editor, Brett C. Miller, Associate editor

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The Columbia history of American poetry, Jay Parini, editor, Brett C. Miller, Associate editor

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eng

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Includes bibliographical references and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The Columbia history of American poetry

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

26398951

Responsibility statement

Jay Parini, editor, Brett C. Miller, Associate editor

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

Table Of 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

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