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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 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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