Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to American Poets
- The Cambridge Companion to American Poets
- The Cambridge Companion to American Poets
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Book part
- Introduction
- 1 “The First Shall Be Last”: Apology and Redemption in the Work of the First New England Poets, Anne Bradstreet and Edward Taylor
- 2 Phillis Wheatley
- 3 The Historical Epic, Women’s Poetry, and Early American Verse
- 4 The Fire This Time: Longfellow, Lowell, Holmes, Whittier
- 5 Ralph Waldo Emerson
- 6 Edgar Allan Poe
- 7 Walt Whitman
- 8 Melville the Poet
- 9 Forever Young: Rereading Emily Dickinson in the Twenty-First Century
- 10 Paul Laurence Dunbar
- 11 Edwin Arlington Robinson
- 12 Robert Frost
- 13 Gertrude Stein
- 14 Wallace Stevens
- 15 William Carlos Williams
- 16 Ezra Pound
- 17 Marianne Moore
- 18 T. S. Eliot and American Poetry
- 19 Hart Crane’s Visionary Company
- 20 The New Negro Renaissance
- 21 Langston Hughes
- 22 Elizabeth Bishop
- 23 Gwendolyn Brooks
- 24 The Three Voices of Robert Lowell
- 25 The Black Mountain School
- 26 Jack Spicer
- 27 Allen Ginsberg: Irreverent, Reverential, and Apocalyptic American Poet
- 28 Anne Sexton, Sylvia Plath and Confessional Poetry
- 29 “Street Musicians”: Frank O’Hara and John Ashbery
- 30 Adrienne Rich: The Poetry of Witness
- 31 An “Empty Prescription”: Pleasure in Contemporary American Poetry
- Further Reading
- Index
- Series page
- References
8 - Melville the Poet
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Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to American Poets
- The Cambridge Companion to American Poets
- The Cambridge Companion to American Poets
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Book part
- Introduction
- 1 “The First Shall Be Last”: Apology and Redemption in the Work of the First New England Poets, Anne Bradstreet and Edward Taylor
- 2 Phillis Wheatley
- 3 The Historical Epic, Women’s Poetry, and Early American Verse
- 4 The Fire This Time: Longfellow, Lowell, Holmes, Whittier
- 5 Ralph Waldo Emerson
- 6 Edgar Allan Poe
- 7 Walt Whitman
- 8 Melville the Poet
- 9 Forever Young: Rereading Emily Dickinson in the Twenty-First Century
- 10 Paul Laurence Dunbar
- 11 Edwin Arlington Robinson
- 12 Robert Frost
- 13 Gertrude Stein
- 14 Wallace Stevens
- 15 William Carlos Williams
- 16 Ezra Pound
- 17 Marianne Moore
- 18 T. S. Eliot and American Poetry
- 19 Hart Crane’s Visionary Company
- 20 The New Negro Renaissance
- 21 Langston Hughes
- 22 Elizabeth Bishop
- 23 Gwendolyn Brooks
- 24 The Three Voices of Robert Lowell
- 25 The Black Mountain School
- 26 Jack Spicer
- 27 Allen Ginsberg: Irreverent, Reverential, and Apocalyptic American Poet
- 28 Anne Sexton, Sylvia Plath and Confessional Poetry
- 29 “Street Musicians”: Frank O’Hara and John Ashbery
- 30 Adrienne Rich: The Poetry of Witness
- 31 An “Empty Prescription”: Pleasure in Contemporary American Poetry
- Further Reading
- Index
- Series page
- References
- Type
- Chapter
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- The Cambridge Companion to American Poets , pp. 104 - 118Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2015
References
Further Reading
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Cohen, Henig, ed., The Battle-Pieces of Herman Melville (New York: Thomas Yoseloff, 1964).Google Scholar
Cox, Richard H. and Dowling, Paul, “Herman Melville’s Civil War: Lincolnian Prudence in Poetry,” Political Science Reviewer 29 (2000): 192–295.Google Scholar
Dillingham, William B., Melville and His Circle: The Last Years (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1996).Google Scholar
Garner, Stanton, The Civil War World of Herman Melville (Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 1993).Google Scholar
Grey, Robin and Robillard, Douglas, in consultation with Hershel Parker, “Melville’s Milton: A Transcription of Melville’s Marginalia in His Copy of The Poetical Works of John Milton,” Leviathan 4 (March and October 2002): 117–204.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Melville, Herman, Clarel, A Poem and a Pilgrimage in the Holy Land, eds. Hayford, Harrison, MacDougal, Alma A., Parker, Hershel, and Tanselle, G. Thomas (Evanston and Chicago: Northwestern University Press and the Newberry Library, 1991).Google Scholar
Milder, Robert, ed., Critical Essays on Melville’s Billy Budd, Sailor (Boston: G. K. Hall & Co., 1989).Google Scholar
Parker, Hershel, Melville: The Making of the Poet. (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2008).Google Scholar
Philbrick, Nathaniel, “Hawthorne, Maria Mitchell, and Melville’s ‘After the Pleasure Party,’” ESQ 37 (1991): 291–308.Google Scholar
Shurr, William B, The Mystery of Iniquity: Melville as Poet, 1857–1891 (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1972).Google Scholar
Spengemann, William C., “Melville the Poet,” American Literary History 11.4 (Winter 1999): 569–609.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Stein, William B., The Poetry of Herman Melville’s Late Years: Time, Myth, and Religion. (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1970).Google Scholar
Vendler, Helen, “Melville and the Lyric of History,” Southern Review 35.3 (Summer 1999): 579–594.Google Scholar
Warren, Rosanna, “Dark Knowledge: Melville’s Poems of the Civil War,” Raritan 19.1 (Summer 1999): 100–121.Google Scholar