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Title The Cambridge companion to American poets / edited by Mark Richardson, Doshisha University, Kyoto
Published New York : Cambridge University Press, 2015

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Description xxii, 464 pages ; 23 cm
Series Cambridge companions to literature
Cambridge companions to literature.
Contents "The first shall be last": apology and redemption in the work of the first New England poets Anne Bradstreet and Edward Taylor / Charlotte Gordon -- Phillis Wheatley / Carla Willard -- The historical epic, women's poetry, and early American verse / Kerry Larson -- The first this time: Longfellow, Lowell, Holmes, Whittier / Christoph Irmscher -- Ralph Waldo Emerson / Mark Scott -- Edgar Allan Poe / Kevin J. Hayes -- Walt Whitman / David S. Reynolds -- Melville the poet / Robert Faggen -- Forever young : rereading Emily Dickinson in the twenty-first century / Martha Nell Smith -- Paul Laurence Dunbar / Joanne M. Braxton and Lauri Ramey -- Edwin Arlington Robinson / Henry Atmore -- Robert Frost / Mark Richardson -- Gertrude Stein / Joan Retallack -- Wallace Stevens / Eleanor Cook -- William Carlos Williams / Ian Copestake -- Ezra Pound / Alec Marsh -- Marianne Moore / Celeste Goodridge -- T. S. Eliot and American poetry / John Xiros Cooper -- Hart Crane's visionary company / Robert Bernard Haas -- The new Negro Renaissance / Steven Tracey -- Langston Hughes / Henry Atmore -- Elizabeth Bishop / Susan McCabe -- Gwendolyn Brooks / James Smethurst -- The three voices of Robert Lowell / Steven Gould Axelrod --The Black Mountain School / Alan Golding -- Jack Spicer / Daniel Katz -- Allen Ginsberg: irreverent, reverential, and apocalyptic American poet / Jonah Raskin -- Anne Sexton, Sylvia Plath, and confessional poetry / Melanie Waters -- "Street musicians": Frank O'Hara and John Ashbery / Andrew Epstein -- Adrienne Rich: the poetry of witness / Wendy Martin and Annalisa Zox-Weaver -- An "empty prescription": pleasure in contemporary American poetry / David Kirby
Summary "The Cambridge Companion to American Poets brings together thirty-one essays on some fifty-four American poets, spanning nearly 400 years, from Anne Bradstreet to contemporary performance poetry. This book also examines such movements in American poetry as modernism, the Harlem (or New Negro) Renaissance, "confessional" poetry, the Black Mountain School, the New York School, the Beats, and L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poetry. Its reputable host of contributors approach American poetry from perspectives as diverse as the poetry itself. The result is a Companion concise enough to be read with pleasure yet expansive enough to do justice to the many traditions American poets have modified, inaugurated, and made their own." -- Publisher's description
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject American poetry -- History and criticism.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Author Richardson, Mark, 1963- editor
LC no. 2015014841
ISBN 9781107560789 (paperback)
1107560780 (paperback)
9781107123823 (hardback)
1107123828 (hardback)