Book
American poetry through 1914
Publication Information
New York : Chelsea House, c1987.
Physical Description
576 p.; 26 cm.
Series
Notes
Includes index.
Contents
- Anne Bradstreet and the practice of weaned affections / Robert Daly
- Edward Taylor: Preparatory meditations / Louis L. Martz
- The visionary line: the poetry of Philip Freneau / Annette Kolodny
- Phillis Wheatley: the dark side of the poetry / Terrence Collins
- William Cullen Bryant: "To a waterfowl" / Donald Davie
- Bryant's "Thanatopsis" and the development of American literature / Rebecca Rio-Jelliffe
- The muse has a deeper secret: Emerson's poetry / David Porter
- On Longfellow / Howard Nemerov
- John Greenleaf Whittier / Robert Penn Warren
- The house of Poe / Richard Wilbur
- Transcendental egoism in Very and Whitman / Lawrence Buell
- An evaluation of Thoreau's poetry / Henry W. Wells
- Whitman: the poet in 1860 / Roy Harvey Pearce
- Walt Whitman: always going out and coming in / R.W.B. Lewis
- Whitman's image of voice: to the tally of my soul / Harold Bloom
- Melville the poet / Robert Penn Warren
- Form as vision in Herman Melville's Clarel / Bryan C. Short
- James Russell Lowell / George Arms
- Frederick Goddard Tuckerman / Denis Donoghue
- Henry Timrod / Roy Harvey Pearce
- Dickinson and despair / Charles R. Anderson
- Emily Dickinson / Margaret Homans
- Emerson, Dickinson, and the abyss / Joanne Feit Diehl
- The blind poet: Sidney Lanier / Robert Penn Warren
- Sidney Lanier and "musicality" / John Hollander
- The poetry of Stephen Crane: war in heaven / Daniel G. Hoffman
- A matter of autumn: Trumbull Stickney and "Mnemosyne" / John Hollander.