The Columbia History of American Poetry

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Jay Parini
Columbia University Press, 23 déc. 1993 - 999 pages

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Table des matières

Anne Bradstreet and Edward Taylor
1
Early African American Poetry
16
The Epic in the Nineteenth Century
33
Longfellow in the Aftermath of Modernism
64
The Transcendentalist Poets
97
Emily Dickinson
121
Walt Whitman
148
Edgar Allan Poe
172
The Poetry of the Harlem Renaissance
452
Warren with Ransom and Tate
477
American Auden
506
The TwentiethCentury Long Poem
534
Public Music
564
Beat Poetry and the San Francisco Poetry Renaissance
581
John Berryman Theodore Roethke and the Elegy
605
What Was Confessional Poetry?
632

Lowell Teasdale Wylie Millay and Bogan
203
Women Poets and the Emergence of Modernisn
233
Robert Frost and the Poetry of Survival
260
Lustra to Mauberley
284
T S Eliot
319
Marianne Moore and Elizabeth Bishop
343
Wallace Stevens
370
William Carlos Williams
395
Hart Cranes Difficult Passage
419
The Postconfessional Lyric
650
The Black Arts Poets
674
Natures Refrain in American Poetry
707
Native American Poetry
728
James Merrill and John Ashbery
750
The Visionary Poetics of Philip Levine and Charles Wright
777
Contributors
807
Index
811
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À propos de l'auteur (1993)

Jay Parini is Axinn Professor of English at Middlebury College. A former Guggenheim Fellow and visiting fellow at Christ Church College, Oxford, Parini has published four volumes of poetry, five novels (including The Last Station and Benjamin's Crossing), a critical study of Theodore Roethke, and biographies of John Steinbeck and Robert Frost. The latter won the Chicago Tribune Heartland Award for the best work of nonfiction in 1999. He has also edited numerous volumes, including The Norton Anthology of American Autobiography and The Columbia Anthology of American Poetry.

Informations bibliographiques

TitreThe Columbia History of American Poetry
RédacteurJay Parini
CollaborateurBrett C. Miller
ÉditeurColumbia University Press, 1993
ISBN0585041547, 9780585041544
Longueur999 pages
  
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