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
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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. 61 - 76Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2015
References
Further Reading
Fiedler, Leslie A., “The Unbroken Tradition,” Waiting for the End (New York: Delta, 1964): 194–215.Google Scholar
Kernahan, Coulson, “The Poet who was not a Poet,” Wise Men and a Fool (New York: Brentano’s, 1901): 225–264.Google Scholar
LaRocca, David, ed., Estimating Emerson: An Anthology of Criticism from Carlyle to Cavell (New York: Bloomsbury, 2013).Google Scholar
Mott, Wesley T., ed., Ralph Waldo Emerson in Context (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2014).Google Scholar
Santayana, George, “Emerson the Poet,” in Santayana on America, ed. Lyon, Richard Colton (New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1968): 268–283.Google Scholar
Thomas, Joseph M., “Poverty and Power: Revisiting Emerson’s Poetics,” in Emerson Bicentennial Essays, eds. Wright, Conrad and Myerson, Joel (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia/Massachusetts Historical Society, 2006): 213–246.Google Scholar
von Frank, Albert J., “Historical Introduction,” The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, volume IX: Poems: A Variorum Edition (Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011): xxv–cii.Google Scholar