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. 286 - 299Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2015
References
Further Reading
Hemenway, Robert E., Zora Neale Hurston: A Literary Biography (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1977).Google Scholar
Lowney, John, “Langston Hughes and the ‘Nonsense’ of Bebop,” American Literature 72.2 (June 2000): 357–385.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Mullen, Edward J., ed., Critical Essays on Langston Hughes (Boston: G. K. Hall, 1986).Google Scholar
Rampersad, Arnold, The Life of Langston Hughes: I, Too, Sing America (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986).Google Scholar
Rampersad, Arnold, The Life of Langston Hughes: I Dream a World (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988).Google Scholar
Schwarz, A. B. Christa, “Transgressive Sexuality and the Literature of the Harlem Renaissance,” in Hutchinson, George ed., The Cambridge Companion to the Harlem Renaissance (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007): 141–154.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Smethurst, James, “Lyric Stars: Countee Cullen and Langston Hughes,” in The Cambridge Companion to the Harlem Renaissance: 112–125.Google Scholar
Stephens, Michelle Ann, “The Harlem Renaissance: The New Negro at Home and Abroad,” in Jarrett, Gene Andrew, ed., A Companion to African American Literature (Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010): 212–226.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Tracy, Stephen C., ed., A Historical Guide to Langston Hughes (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004).Google Scholar
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