The Cambridge companion to American poets / edited by Mark Richardson, Doshisha University, Kyoto.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Richardson, Mark, 1963- editor.

Series:

Cambridge companions to literature.

Cambridge companions to literature

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--History and criticism.

American poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxii, 464 pages).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Cambridge University Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Cambridge Companion to American Poets brings together thirty-one essays on some fifty-four American poets, spanning nearly 400 years, from Anne Bradstreet to contemporary performance poetry. This book also examines such movements in American poetry as modernism, the Harlem (or New Negro) Renaissance, 'confessional' poetry, the Black Mountain School, the New York School, the Beats, and L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poetry. Its reputable host of contributors approach American poetry from perspectives as diverse as the poetry itself. The result is a Companion concise enough to be read with pleasure yet expansive enough to do justice to the many traditions American poets have modified, inaugurated, and made their own.

Contents:

"The first shall be last": apology and redemption in the work of the first New England poets Anne Bradstreet and Edward Taylor / Charlotte Gordon

Phillis Wheatley / Carla Willard

The historical epic, women's poetry, and early American verse / Kerry Larson

The first this time: Longfellow, Lowell, Holmes, Whittier / Christoph Irmscher

Ralph Waldo Emerson / Mark Scott

Edgar Allan Poe / Kevin J. Hayes

Walt Whitman / David S. Reynolds

Melville the poet / Robert Faggen

Forever young : rereading Emily Dickinson in the twenty-first century / Martha Nell Smith

Paul Laurence Dunbar / Joanne M. Braxton and Lauri Ramey

Edwin Arlington Robinson / Henry Atmore

Robert Frost / Mark Richardson

Gertrude Stein / Joan Retallack

Wallace Stevens / Eleanor Cook

William Carlos Williams / Ian Copestake

Ezra Pound / Alec Marsh

Marianne Moore / Celeste Goodridge

T. S. Eliot and American poetry / John Xiros Cooper

Hart Crane's visionary company / Robert Bernard Haas

The new Negro Renaissance / Steven Tracey

Langston Hughes / Henry Atmore

Elizabeth Bishop / Susan McCabe

Gwendolyn Brooks / James Smethurst

The three voices of Robert Lowell / Steven Gould Axelrod

The Black Mountain School / Alan Golding

Jack Spicer / Daniel Katz

Allen Ginsberg: irreverent, reverential, and apocalyptic American poet / Jonah Raskin

Anne Sexton, Sylvia Plath, and confessional poetry / Melanie Waters

"Street musicians": Frank O'Hara and John Ashbery / Andrew Epstein

Adrienne Rich: the poetry of witness / Wendy Martin and Annalisa Zox-Weaver

An "empty prescription": pleasure in contemporary American poetry / David Kirby.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Nov 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781316411452

1316411451

9781316413241

1316413241

9781316403532

131640353X

OCLC:

927582463