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Rev. ed. |
| Description |
xxiv, 735 pages ; 22 cm |
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unmediated n rdamedia |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 691-716) and index. |
| Contents |
pt. 1. Beginnings -- I. Puritans and Deists -- Puritans Verse -- Anne Bradstreet -- Edward Taylor -- Deists -- Joel Barlow -- Philip Freneau -- II. Five New England poets -- The shape of things to come -- William Cullen Bryant -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- Oliver Wendell Holmes -- James Russell Lowell -- John Greenleaf Whittier -- pt. 2. Transcendental dawn -- III. Sursum Corda -- The Poet as Friend and Aider -- Ralph Waldo Emerson -- IV. Ecstasy in Concord and Salem -- Henry David Thoreau -- Jones Very -- V. Transcendental Despair -- Edgar Allan Poe -- pt. 3. The Transcendent Self -- VI. Singing for Soul and Body -- Walt Whitman VII. Proun Ephemeral -- Emily Dickinson -- pt. 4. Doubts, Dilutions, Strategies -- VIII. Some Lesser Figures -- Holland -- Herman Melville -- Sidney Lanier -- Stephen Crane -- William Vaughn Moody -- Frederick Goddard Tuckerman -- Trumbull Stickney -- IX. The Idealist in Extremis -- Edwin Arlington Robinson -- X. The Strategic Retreat -- Robert Frost -- pt. 5. The Revolutionary of Modernism: Image -- XI. Science and Poetry: Imagism -- XII. Some Imagists -- Amy Lowell -- John Gould Fletcher -- H.D. -- Marianne Moore -- XIII. In The American Grain -- William Carlos Williams -- pt. 6. The Revolutions of Modernism: Idea -- XIV. Ideogram, or the Method of Science -- Ezra Pound -- XV. Myth and Memory -- Thomas Stearns Eliot -- XVI. The Idea of Order: Fictive Music -- Wallace Stevens -- XVII. Sic Transit Gloria: Six Famous Poets -- Vachel Lindsay -- Edgar Lee Masters -- Carl Sandburg -- Sara Teasdale -- Elinor Wylie -- Edna St. Vincent Millay -- XVIII. Melodies of Chaos -- Robinson Jeffers -- Conrad Aiken -- Archibald MacLeish -- XIX. The Transcendental and Extraordinary -- Hart Crane -- E.E. Cummings -- XX. Irony and Orthodoxy -- Agrarian Protest -- John Crowe Ransom -- Allen Tate -- Robert Penn Warren -- pt. 7. After Modernism -- XXI. Transitions -- Signs of the End of Modernism -- New "BSchools" of the Sixties and Seventies -- Four Transitional Poets -- Theodore Roethke -- Robert Lowell -- John Berryman -- Richard Wilbur -- Four Post-Modernists -- Robert Duncan -- Howard Nemerov -- James Dickey -- Denise Levertov -- XXII. "For the Time Being" -- "Mortal Acts, Mortal Words" -- Galway Kinnell -- James Merrill -- James Wright -- W.S. Merwin -- The Two Worlds: Robert Bly -- "As We Know": John Ashbery -- "The Condition of True Naming": The Poet as Visionary -- "Persistences": A.R. Ammons -- "Staying Alive in a Clear-cut Forest": David Wagoner -- Poetry in a Fearful Time -- Postscript. |
| Summary |
Discusses poets such as Anne Bradstreet, Edward Taylor, Joel Barlow, Philip Freneau, William Cullen Bryant, Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes, James Russell Lowell, John Greenleaf Whittier, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Thoreau, Jones Very, Poe, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, J.G. Holland, Herman Melville, Sidney Lanier, Stephen Crane, William Vaughn Moody, Frederick Goddard Tuckerman, Trumbull Stickney, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Frost, Amy Lowell, John Gould Fletcher, H.D., Marianne Moore, William Carlos Williams, Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, Wallace Stevens, Vachel Lindsay, Edgar Lee Masters, Carl Sandburg, Sara Teasdale, Elinor Wylie, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Robinson Jeffers, Conrad Aiken, Archibald MacLeish, Hart Crane, E.E. Cummings, John Crowe Ransom, Allen Tate, Robert Penn Warren, Theodore Roethke, Robert Lowell, John Berryman, Richard Wilbur, Robert Duncan, Howard Nemerov, James Dickey, Denise Levertov, Galway Kinnell, James Merrill, James Wright, W.S. Merwin, Robert Bly, John Ashbery, A.R. Ammons, and David Wagoner. |
| Subject |
American poetry -- History and criticism.
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American poetry. (OCoLC)fst00807348
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
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| ISBN |
0807111465 |
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9780807111468 |
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0807111635 (pbk.) |
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9780807111635 (pbk.) |
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