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The Columbia history of American poetry

Author: Jay Parini; Brett Candlish Millier
Publisher: New York : Columbia University Press, ©1993.
Edition/Format:  Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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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.
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Jay Parini; Brett Candlish Millier
ISBN: 0231078366 9780231078368
OCLC Number: 26398951
Description: xxxi, 894 p. ; 25 cm.
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.
Responsibility: Jay Parini, editor, Brett C. Miller, Associate editor.
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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.

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