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The Cambridge companion to nineteenth-century American poetry / edited by Kerry Larson.

Contributor(s): Series: Cambridge companions to topicsPublication details: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.Description: xix, 286 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780521763691
  • 052176369X
  • 9780521145800 (pbk.)
  • 0521145805 (pbk.)
Other title:
  • Nineteenth-century American poetry
  • 19th-century American poetry
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 811.309 22
LOC classification:
  • PS316 .C36 2011
Contents:
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.
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Book Book NMC Library Stacks PS316 .C36 2011 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 33039001216778

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.

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