The Columbia History of American Poetry

Cover......Page 1 Title......Page 3 ISBN......Page 4 Contents......Page 5 Introduction......Page 9 Anne Bradstreet and Edward Taylor......Page 32 Early African American Poetry......Page 47 The Epic in the Nineteenth Century......Page 64 Longfellow in the Aftermath of Modernism......Page 95 The American Transcendentalist Poets......Page 128 Emily Dickinson......Page 152 Walt Whitman's Revisionary Democracy......Page 179 Edgar Allan Poe......Page 203 Lowell, Teasdale, Wylie, Millay, and Bogan......Page 234 Women Poets and the Emergence of Modernisn......Page 264 Robert Frost and the Poetry of Survival......Page 291 Ezra Pound's Imagist Aesthetics:Lustra to Mauberley......Page 315 T. S. Eliot......Page 350 Marianne Moore and Elizabeth Bishop......Page 374 Wallace Stevens......Page 401 William Carlos Williams......Page 426 Hart Crane's Difficult Passage......Page 450 The Poetry of the Harlem Renaissance......Page 483 Warren, with Ransom and Tate......Page 508 American Auden......Page 537 The Twentieth-Century Long Poem......Page 565 Public Music......Page 595 John Berryman, Theodore Roethke, and the Elegy......Page 636 What Was Confessional Poetry?......Page 663 The Postconfessional Lyric......Page 681 The Black Arts Poets......Page 705 Nature's Refrain in American Poetry......Page 738 Native American Poetry......Page 759 James Merrill and John Ashbery......Page 781 The Visionary Poetics of Philip Levine and Charles Wright......Page 808 Contributors......Page 838 Index......Page 842 From Ann Bradstreet and Edward Taylor to Philip Levine and Charles Wright, this comprehensive general history of American poetry examines the American epic, Transcendentalism, the Modernists, the Fugitives, the Beat poets, the confessional poets, and all those in between