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

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Material Type
Book
Publication Info.
New York : Columbia University Press, [1993]
Publication Info.
©1993

Details

Description
xxxi, 894 pages ; 25 cm
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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.
Subject
Bradstreet, Anne, 1612?-1672.
Taylor, Edward, 1642-1729.
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Lowell, James Russell, 1819-1891 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Teasdale, Sara, 1884-1933.
Millay, Edna St. Vincent, 1892-1950.
Moore, Marianne, 1887-1972.
Wylie, Elinor, 1885-1928.
Crane, Stephen, 1871-1900 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Frost, Robert, 1874-1963 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Williams, William Carlos, 1883-1963 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Warren, Robert Penn, 1905-1989 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Stevens, Wallace, 1879-1955 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Bishop, Elizabeth, 1911-1979 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Ransom, John Crowe, 1888-1974.
Auden, W. H. (Wystan Hugh), 1907-1973 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Berryman, John, 1914-1972.
Roethke, Theodore, 1908-1963.
Ashbery, John, 1927-2017 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Levine, Philip, 1928-2015.
Baraka, Amiri, 1934-2014.
American poetry -- History and criticism.
American poetry -- History and criticism.
Ashbery, John, 1927-2017
Auden, W. H. (Wystan Hugh), 1907-1973
Baraka, Amiri, 1934-2014
Berryman, John, 1914-1972
Bishop, Elizabeth, 1911-1979
Bradstreet, Anne, 1612?-1672
Crane, Stephen, 1871-1900
Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886
Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965
Frost, Robert, 1874-1963
Levine, Philip, 1928-2015
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882
Lowell, James Russell, 1819-1891
Millay, Edna St. Vincent, 1892-1950
Moore, Marianne, 1887-1972
Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849
Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972
Ransom, John Crowe, 1888-1974
Roethke, Theodore, 1908-1963
Stevens, Wallace, 1879-1955
Taylor, Edward, 1642-1729
Teasdale, Sara, 1884-1933
Warren, Robert Penn, 1905-1989
Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892
Williams, William Carlos, 1883-1963
Wylie, Elinor, 1885-1928
American poetry.
Dichtkunst.
Amerikaans.
American poetry -- History and criticism.
Indexed Term
English poetry History
United States
Genre/Form
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Added Author
Parini, Jay,
Millier, Brett C., 1958-
ISBN
0231078366 (acid-free paper)
9780231078368 (acid-free paper)
0585041547 (electronic book)
9780585041544 (electronic book)