Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to American Poets
- The Cambridge Companion to American Poets
- The Cambridge Companion to American Poets
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Book part
- Introduction
- 1 “The First Shall Be Last”: Apology and Redemption in the Work of the First New England Poets, Anne Bradstreet and Edward Taylor
- 2 Phillis Wheatley
- 3 The Historical Epic, Women’s Poetry, and Early American Verse
- 4 The Fire This Time: Longfellow, Lowell, Holmes, Whittier
- 5 Ralph Waldo Emerson
- 6 Edgar Allan Poe
- 7 Walt Whitman
- 8 Melville the Poet
- 9 Forever Young: Rereading Emily Dickinson in the Twenty-First Century
- 10 Paul Laurence Dunbar
- 11 Edwin Arlington Robinson
- 12 Robert Frost
- 13 Gertrude Stein
- 14 Wallace Stevens
- 15 William Carlos Williams
- 16 Ezra Pound
- 17 Marianne Moore
- 18 T. S. Eliot and American Poetry
- 19 Hart Crane’s Visionary Company
- 20 The New Negro Renaissance
- 21 Langston Hughes
- 22 Elizabeth Bishop
- 23 Gwendolyn Brooks
- 24 The Three Voices of Robert Lowell
- 25 The Black Mountain School
- 26 Jack Spicer
- 27 Allen Ginsberg: Irreverent, Reverential, and Apocalyptic American Poet
- 28 Anne Sexton, Sylvia Plath and Confessional Poetry
- 29 “Street Musicians”: Frank O’Hara and John Ashbery
- 30 Adrienne Rich: The Poetry of Witness
- 31 An “Empty Prescription”: Pleasure in Contemporary American Poetry
- Further Reading
- Index
- Series page
- References
3 - The Historical Epic, Women’s Poetry, and Early American Verse
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Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to American Poets
- The Cambridge Companion to American Poets
- The Cambridge Companion to American Poets
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Book part
- Introduction
- 1 “The First Shall Be Last”: Apology and Redemption in the Work of the First New England Poets, Anne Bradstreet and Edward Taylor
- 2 Phillis Wheatley
- 3 The Historical Epic, Women’s Poetry, and Early American Verse
- 4 The Fire This Time: Longfellow, Lowell, Holmes, Whittier
- 5 Ralph Waldo Emerson
- 6 Edgar Allan Poe
- 7 Walt Whitman
- 8 Melville the Poet
- 9 Forever Young: Rereading Emily Dickinson in the Twenty-First Century
- 10 Paul Laurence Dunbar
- 11 Edwin Arlington Robinson
- 12 Robert Frost
- 13 Gertrude Stein
- 14 Wallace Stevens
- 15 William Carlos Williams
- 16 Ezra Pound
- 17 Marianne Moore
- 18 T. S. Eliot and American Poetry
- 19 Hart Crane’s Visionary Company
- 20 The New Negro Renaissance
- 21 Langston Hughes
- 22 Elizabeth Bishop
- 23 Gwendolyn Brooks
- 24 The Three Voices of Robert Lowell
- 25 The Black Mountain School
- 26 Jack Spicer
- 27 Allen Ginsberg: Irreverent, Reverential, and Apocalyptic American Poet
- 28 Anne Sexton, Sylvia Plath and Confessional Poetry
- 29 “Street Musicians”: Frank O’Hara and John Ashbery
- 30 Adrienne Rich: The Poetry of Witness
- 31 An “Empty Prescription”: Pleasure in Contemporary American Poetry
- Further Reading
- Index
- Series page
- References
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- The Cambridge Companion to American Poets , pp. 32 - 46Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2015
References
Further Reading
Baym, Nina, American Women Writers and the Work of History, 1790–1860 (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1995).Google Scholar
Bell, Michael Davitt, The Development of American Romance: The Sacrifice of Relation (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980).Google Scholar
Cheng, Eileen, The Plain and Noble Garb of Truth: Nationalism and Impartiality in American Historical Writing, 1784–1860 (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2008).Google Scholar
Davidson, Cathy N., Revolution and the Word: The Rise of the Novel in America (New York: Oxford University Press, 1987).Google Scholar
Dekker, George, The American Historical Novel (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987).Google Scholar
Kaul, Suvir, Poems of Nation, Anthems of Empire: English Verse in the Long Eighteenth Century (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000).Google Scholar
Loefflehoez, Mary, From School to Salon: Reading Nineteenth-Century American Women’s Poetry (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004): 32–64.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
McWilliams, John, “Poetry of the Early Republic,” in Columbia Literary History of the United States, ed. Elliott, Emory (New York: Columbia University Press, 1988).Google Scholar
Orians, G. Harrison, “The Romance Ferment After Waverley,” American Literature 3 (1932): 408–431.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Phillips, Mark Salber, Society and Sentiment: Genres of Historical Writing in Britain, 1740–1820 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
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