American poets and poetry : from the colonial era to the present /: from the colonial era to the present. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Jeffrey Gray, Mary McAleer Balkun, and James McCorkle, editors.
• Editors: Gray, Jeffrey, 1944-; Balkun, Mary McAleer; McCorkle, James
• Contents: PrefaceIntroductionChronologyVolume 1African American PoetryAmmons, A.R. (1926–2001)Angelou, Maya (1928–2014)Ashbery, John (1927– )Asian American PoetryAuden, W.H. (1907–1973)Baraka, Amiri (1934–2014)Barlow, Joel (1754–1812)Bay Psalm Book (1640)Beat PoetryBenét, Stephen Vincent (1898–1943)Bernstein, Charles (1950– )Berryman, John (1914–1972)Bidart, Frank (1939– )Bishop, Elizabeth (1911–1979)Black Arts MovementBlack Mountain SchoolBleecker, Ann Eliza (1752–1783)Bly, Robert (1926– )Bradstreet, Anne (1612–1672)Brooks, Gwendolyn (1917–2000)Bryant, William Cullen (1794–1878)Caribbean PoetryClifton, Lucille (1936–2010)Collins, Billy (1941–)Concrete PoetryConfessional PoetryCooke, Ebenezer (ca. 1667–ca. 1732)Crane, Hart (1899–1931)Crane, Stephen (1871–1900)Creeley, Robert (1926–2005)Cullen, Countee (1903–1946)cummings, e.e. (1894–1962)Deep ImageDickinson, Emily (1830–1886)Dunbar, Paul Laurence (1872–1906)Dwight, Timothy (1752–1817)EcopoeticsElegyEliot, T.S. (1888–1965)Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803–1882)Forché, Carolyn (1950– )Forten, Sarah Louisa (1812–1884)Free VerseFreneau, Philip (ca. 1752–1832)Frost, Robert (1874–1963)Ginsberg, Allen (1926–1997)Graham, Jorie (1950– )Griffits, Hannah (1727–1817)Guiney, Louise Imogen (1861–1920)Halleck, Fitz-Greene (1790–1867)Hammon, Jupiter (1711–[between 1790 and 1806])Harlem RenaissanceHarper, Frances Ellen Watkins (1825–1911)H.D. (1886–1961)Holmes, Oliver Wendell (1809–1894)Horton, George Moses (ca. 1797–ca. 1883)Howe, Julia Ward (1819–1910)Hughes, Langston (1902–1967)Hugo, Richard (1923–1982)ImagismJarrell, Randall (1914–1965)Jeffers, Robinson (1887–1962)Johnson, James Weldon (1871–1938)Jordan, June (1936–2002)Juana Inés de la Cruz, Sor (1648/1651–1695)Key, Francis Scott (1779–1843)Kinnell, Galway (1927–2014)Koch, Kenneth (1925–2002)Kumin, Maxine (1925–2014)Kunitz, Stanley (1905–2006)Language PoetryLanier, Sidney (1842–1881)Larcom, Lucy (1824–1893)Latino Poetry in the United StatesLazarus, Emma (1849–1887)Levertov, Denise (1923–1997)Lewis, Richard (ca. 1699–1783)Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth (1807–1882)Lowell, James Russell (1819–1891)Lowell, Robert (1917–1977)Lyric PoetryVolume 2Masters, Edgar Lee (1868–1950)McKay, Claude (1889–1948)Melville, Herman (1819–1891)Merrill, James (1926–1995)Merwin, W.S. (1927– )Millay, Edna St. Vincent (1892–1950)ModernismMoore, Clement Clarke (1779–1863)Moore, Marianne (1887–1972)Morton, Sarah Wentworth (1759–1846)Narrative PoetryNash, Ogden (1902–1971)Native American PoetryNew CriticismNew FormalismNew York SchoolObjectivist PoetryO'Hara, Frank (1926–1966)Olds, Sharon (1942– )Olson, Charles (1910–1970)Parker, Dorothy (1893–1967)PastoralPerformance PoetryPinsky, Robert (1940– )Plath, Sylvia (1932–1963)Poe, Edgar Allan (1809–1849)Postmodern PoeticsPound, Ezra (1885–1972)Projective VerseProse PoemProsody and VersificationRexroth, Kenneth (1905–1982)Rich, Adrienne (1929–2012)Riley, James Whitcomb (1849–1916)Robinson, Edwin Arlington (1869–1935)Roethke, Theodore (1908–1963)Sandburg, Carl (1876–1967)San Francisco RenaissanceSchoolcraft, Jane Johnston (1800–1841)Sexton, Anne (1928–1974)Sigourney, Lydia Huntley (1791–1865)Snyder, Gary (1930– )Stein, Gertrude (1874–1946)Stevens, Wallace (1879–1955)Stockton, Annis Boudinot (1736–1801)Strand, Mark (1934–2014)Taylor, Edward (ca. 1642–1729)Thayer, Ernest Lawrence (1863–1940)Thoreau, Henry David (1817–1862)Tompson, Benjamin (1642–1714)Toomer, Jean (1894–1967)Trethewey, Natasha (1966– )Very, Jones (1813–1880)Walcott, Derek (1930– )Warren, Mercy Otis (1728–1814)Wheatley, Phillis (ca. 1753–1784)Whitman, Walt (1819–1892)Whittier, John Greenleaf (1807–1892)Wigglesworth, Michael (1631–1705)Wilbur, Richard (1921– )Wilcox, Ella Wheeler (1850–1919)Williams, William Carlos (1883–1963)Wright, James (1927–1980)Wright, Susanna (1697–1784)Zukofsky, Louis (1904–1978)Selected BibliographyAbout the Editors and ContributorsIndex.
• Publisher Details: New York : Greenwood
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource (896 pages)
• Subjects: 811.009; Literary Criticism -- Poetry; American poetry -- History and criticism; Literary Criticism -- American -- General; Literary studies: poetry & poets
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9798216046608
• Related ISBNs: 9781610698313
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