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The Cambridge companion to nineteenth-century American poetry /

The Cambridge companion to nineteenth-century American poetry / Nineteenth-century American poetry 19th-century American poetry edited by Kerry Larson. - Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011. - xix, 286 p. ; 24 cm. - Cambridge companions to-- topics . - Cambridge companions to topics. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-269) and index.

Introduction / Kerry Larson -- Part I. Mandates, movements, and manifestos. 1. The reception of nineteenth-century American poetry / Mary Louise Kete -- 2. American Indian poetry in the nineteenth century / Robert Dale Parker -- 3. The poet as poetess / Virginia Jackson -- 4. Transcendental poetics / Stephen Cushman -- 5. Slavery and its metrics / Max Cavitch -- 6. Weathering the news in US Civil War poetry / Eliza Richards -- 7. The "twilight of the poets" in the era of American realism, 1875-1900 / Elizabeth Renker -- Part II. Individual authors. 8. Longfellow's ambivalence / Stephen Burt -- 9. Sarah Piatt's grammar of convention and the conditions of authorship / Jess Roberts -- 10. Poe and Southern poetry / John D. Kerkering -- 11. The color line : James Monroe Whitfield and Albery Allson Whitman / Ivy G. Wilson -- 12. Colonial violence and poetic transcendence in Whitman's "Song of myself" / Donald Pease -- 13. Emily Dickinson's "turban'd seas" / Cristanne Miller.

9780521763691 052176369X 9780521145800 (pbk.) 0521145805 (pbk.)

2011277260

015841447 Uk


American poetry--History and criticism.--19th century
Poets, American.

PS316 / .C36 2011

811.309

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