| Publication |
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
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| Description |
xix, 286 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Call # |
811.09 C |
| Series |
Cambridge companions to-- topics
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Cambridge companions to topics.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-269) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction / Kerry Larson -- Part I. Mandates, movements, and manifestoes -- The reception of nineteenth-century American poetry / Mary Louise Kete -- American Indian poetry in the nineteenth century / Robert Dale Parker -- The poet as poetess / Virginia Jackson -- Transcendental poetics / Stephen Cushman -- Slavery and its metrics / Max Cavitch -- Weathering the news in US Civil War poetry / Eliza Richards -- The "twilight of the poets" in the era of American realism, 1875-1900 / Elizabeth Renker -- Part II. Individual authors -- Longfellow's ambivalence / Stephen Burt -- Sarah Piatt's grammar of convention and the conditions of authorship / Jess Roberts -- Poe and Southern poetry / John D. Kerkering -- The color line : James Monroe Whitfield and Albery Allson Whitman / Ivy G. Wilson -- Colonial violence and poetic transcendence in Whitman's "Song of myself" / Donald Pease -- Emily Dickinson's "turban'd seas" / Cristanne Miller. |
| Subject |
American poetry -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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Poets, American.
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| Addl. Author |
Larson, Kerry C.
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| Alt Title |
Nineteenth-century American poetry |
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19th-century American poetry |
| ISBN |
9780521763691 |
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052176369X |
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9780521145800 (pbk.) : |
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0521145805 (pbk.) |
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