The Cambridge history of American poetry / edited by Alfred Bendixen, Stephen Burt.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bendixen, Alfred, editor.

Burt, Stephanie, 1971- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--History and criticism.

American poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xx, 1306 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2015.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Introduction / Alfred Bendixen and Stephen Burt

Part I. Beginnings: Poetry before 1800. Remembering Muskrat: native poetics and the American Indian oral tradition / Betty Booth Donohue

Rhyming empires: early American poetry in languages other than English / Susan Castillo Street

The world, the flesh, and God in Puritan poetry / Robert Daly

Confronting death: the New England Puritan elegy / Jeffrey A. Hammond

The emergence of a Southern tradition / Jim Egan

Poetry in the time of revolution / Kevin J. Hayes

Part II. A New Nation: Poetry, 1800-1900. Asserting a national voice / Frank Gado

The emergence of romantic traditions / Alfred Bendixen

Linen shreds and melons in a field: Emerson and his contemporaries / Christoph Irmscher

Edgar Allan Poe's lost worlds / Eliza Richards

Longfellow in his time / Virginia Jackson

Whittier, Holmes, Lowell, and the New England tradition / Michael C. Cohen

Other voices, other verses: cultures of American poetry at midcentury / Mary Loeffelholz

American poetry fights the Civil War / Faith Barrett

Walt Whitman's invention of a democratic poetry / Ed Folsom

Emily Dickinson: the poetics and practice of autonomy / Wendy Martin

The South in Reconstruction: white and black voices / John D. Kerkering

The 'genteel tradition' and its discontents / Elizabeth Renker

Disciplined play: American children's poetry to 1920 / Angela Sorby

Dialect, doggerel, and local color: comic traditions and the rise of realism in popular poetry / David E.E. Sloane

Political poets and naturalism / Tyler Hoffman

Part III. Forms of Modernism, 1900-1950. The twentieth century begins / John Timberman Newcomb

Robert Frost and tradition / Siobhan Phillips

T.S. Eliot / Charles Altieri

William Carlos Williams: the shock of the familiar / Bob Perelman

Finding 'only words' mysterious: reading Mina Loy (and H.D.) in America / Cristanne Miller

Marianne Moore and the printed page / Robin G. Schulze

The formalist modernism of Edna St Vincent Millay, Helene Johnson, and Louise Bogan / Lesley Wheeler

The romantic and anti-romantic in the poetry of Wallace Stevens / George Lensing

Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, and the East coast projectivists / Matthew Hofer

Langston Hughes and his world / David Chioni Moore

The objectivists and the left / Mark Scroggins

'All the blessings of this consuming chance': Robert Lowell, John Berryman, Theodore Roethke, and the middle generation poets / David Wojahn

Elizabeth Bishop, Randall Jarrell, and the lost world of real feeling / Richard Flynn

Writing the South / Ernest Suarez

Part IV. Beyond Modernism: American Poetry, 1950-2000. San Francisco and the Beats / Stephen Fredman

The New York school / Brian Reed

The uses of authenticity: four sixties poets / Nick Halpern

James Merrill and his circles / David Bergman

Science in contemporary American poetry: Ammons and others / Roger Gilbert

The 1970s and the 'poetry of the center' / Edward Brunner

Latino poetry and poetics / Rigoberto González

Psychoanalytic poetics / Reena Sastri

Asian American poetry / Joseph Jonghyun Jeon

American poetry of the 1980s: the pressures of reality / Lisa M. Steinman

Black and blues configurations: contemporary African American poetry / Walton Muyumba

Amy Clampitt, 'culture' poetry, and the neo-baroque / Willard Spiegelman

Modern and contemporary children's poetry / Joseph T. Thomas, Jr.

Multilingualism in contemporary American poetry / Juliana Spahr

American poetry at the end of the millennium / Stephen Burt.

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9780511762284 (ebook)

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