The Cambridge companion to nineteenth-century American poetry
By: edited by Kerry Larson
Series: Cambridge companions to-- topics; Cambridge companions to topics
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 286
ISBN-13: 9780521763691; 9780521145800
Subjects: History and criticism; American poetry; American Poets
Other titles: Nineteenth-century American poetry; 19th-century American poetry
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-269) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Kerry Larson; title: Part I. Mandates, movements, and manifestos. 1. The reception of nineteenth-century American poetry / Mary Louise Kete; title: 2. American Indian poetry in the nineteenth century / Robert Dale Parker; title: 3. The poet as poetess / Virginia Jackson; title: 4. Transcendental poetics / Stephen Cushman; title: 5. Slavery and its metrics / Max Cavitch; title: 6. Weathering the news in US Civil War poetry / Eliza Richards; title: 7. The "twilight of the poets" in the era of American realism, 1875-1900 / Elizabeth Renker; title: Part II. Individual authors.  8. Longfellow's ambivalence / Stephen Burt; title: 9. Sarah Piatt's grammar of convention and the conditions of authorship / Jess Roberts; title: 10. Poe and Southern poetry / John D. Kerkering; title: 11. The color line : James Monroe Whitfield and Albery Allson Whitman / Ivy G. Wilson; title: 12. Colonial violence and poetic transcendence in Whitman's "Song of myself" / Donald Pease; title: 13. Emily Dickinson's "turban'd seas" / Cristanne Miller.