The Columbia History of American Poetry

By: Jay Parini (Editor), Brett Miller (As told to)

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Hardcover | 23 December 1993 | Edition Number 1

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A comprehensive study of American poetry from colonial times to the present day, which features a wealth of views and reviews by contemporary American literary critics. The poets discussed range from Longfellow and Poe to Ginsberg and Plath.

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These 31 essays... interrogate, dismantle, and ultimately reassemble the history of poetry in the United States. An essential volume that shows how poetry intersects with our lives and vice versa. Library Journal

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Introduction	p. ix
Anne Bradstreet and Edward Taylor	p. 1
Further Reading	p. 14
Early African American Poetry	p. 16
Further Reading	p. 31
The Epic in the Nineteenth Century	p. 33
Further Reading	p. 63
Longfellow in the Aftermath of Modernism	p. 64
Further Reading	p. 96
The American Transcendentalist Poets	p. 97
Further Reading	p. 120
Emily Dickinson	p. 121
Futher Reading	p. 147
Walt Whitman's Revisionary Democracy	p. 148
Further Reading	p. 171
Edgar Allan Poe	p. 172
Further Reading	p. 202
Lowell, Teasdale, Wylie, Millay, and Bogan	p. 203
Further Reading	p. 231
Women Poets and the Emergence of Modernisn	p. 233
Further Reading	p. 259
Robert Frost and the Poetry of Survival	p. 260
Further Reading	p. 283
Ezra Pound's Imagist Aesthetics: Lustra to Mauberley	p. 284
Further Reading	p. 318
T. S. Eliot	p. 319
Further Reading	p. 342
Marianne Moore and Elizabeth Bishop	p. 343
Further Reading	p. 369
Wallace Stevens	p. 370
Further Reading	p. 393
William Carlos Williams	p. 395
Further Reading	p. 417
Hart Crane's Difficult Passage	p. 419
Further Reading	p. 450
The Poetry of the Harlem Renaissance	p. 452
Further Reading	p. 476
Warren, with Ransom and Tate	p. 477
Further Reading	p. 505
American Auden	p. 506
Further Reading	p. 532
The Twentieth-Century Long Poem	p. 534
Further Reading	p. 563
Public Music	p. 564
Beat Poetry and the San Francisco Poetry Renaissance	p. 581
Further Reading	p. 604
John Berryman, Theodore Roethke, and the Elegy	p. 605
Further Reading	p. 630
What Was Confessional Poetry?	p. 632
Further Reading	p. 648
The Postconfessional Lyric	p. 650
Further Reading	p. 672
The Black Arts Poets	p. 674
Further Reading	p. 727
Native American Poetry	p. 728
Further Reading	p. 749
James Merrill and John Ashbery	p. 750
Further Reading	p. 775
The Visionary Poetics of Philip Levine and Charles Wright	p. 777
Further Reading	p. 806
Contributors	p. 807
Index	p. 811
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