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. 136 - 143Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2015
References
Further Reading
Blount, Marcellus, “Caged Birds: Race and Gender in the Sonnet,” in Engendering Men: The Question of Male Feminist Criticism, eds. Boone, Joseph A. and Cadden, Michael (New York and London: Routledge, 1990): 208–232.Google Scholar
Brown, Sterling, Negro Poetry and Drama, and the Negro in American Fiction (New York: Athenaeum, 1937).Google Scholar
Dunbar, Paul Laurence, The Collected Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar, ed. Braxton, Joanne M. (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1993). With an extensive introduction by the editor.Google Scholar
Gayle, Addison, Oak and Ivy: A Biography of Paul Laurence Dunbar (New York: Doubleday, 1971).Google Scholar
Gates, Henry Louis, The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of African-American Literary Criticism (New York: Oxford University Press, 1988).Google Scholar
Harrell, Willie, ed., We Wear the Mask: Paul Laurence Dunbar and the Politics of Representative Reality (Kent: Kent State University Press, 2010).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Martin, Jay, ed., A Singer in the Dawn: Reinterpretations of Paul Laurence Dunbar (New York: Dodd, Mead, 1975).Google Scholar
Ramey, Lauri, “Paul Laurence Dunbar and the Spirituals,” in Black Music, Black Poetry, ed. Thompson, Gordon (Surrey and Burlington: Ashgate, 2014): 39–54.Google Scholar
Turner, Darwin, Paul Laurence Dunbar: The Rejected Symbol (New York: Bobbs Merrill, 1967).Google Scholar
Wiggins, Lida Keck, The Life and Works of Paul Laurence Dunbar, introduction by William Dean Howells (Washington, DC: Austin-Jenkins, 1907). Includes the first detailed biography of the poet.Google Scholar