Title: Encyclopedia of American poetry
Description: With contributions from over 100 scholars, this encyclopedia provides essays on the careers, works, and backgrounds of more than 100 nineteenth-century poets. It also provides entries on specialized categories of twentieth-century verse such as hymns, folk ballads, spirituals, Civil War songs, and Native American poetry. Besides presenting essential factual information, each entry amounts to an in-depth critical essay, and includes a bibliography that directs readers to other works by and about a particular poet.
Subjects: Dictionaries, American Poets, American poetry, Bio-bibliography, Biography, History and criticism, American poetry, dictionaries, indexes, etc., American poetry, history and criticism, 19th century, Poètes américains, Biographies, Dictionnaires anglais, Poésie américaine, Biobibliographie