American Poets and Poetry
From the Colonial Era to the Present [2 volumes]
Published on 10. March 2015
Book
723 pages
978-1-61069-831-3 (ISBN)
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The ethnically diverse scope, broad chronological coverage, and mix of biographical, critical, historical, political, and cultural entries make this the most useful and exciting poetry reference of its kind for students today.
American poetry springs up out of all walks of life; its poems are "maternal as well as paternal...stuff'd with the stuff that is coarse and stuff'd with the stuff that is fine," as Walt Whitman wrote, adding "Of every hue and caste am I, of every rank and religion."
Written for high school and undergraduate students, this two-volume encyclopedia covers U.S. poetry from the Colonial era to the present, offering full treatments of hundreds of key poets of the American canon. What sets this reference apart is that it also discusses events, movements, schools, and poetic approaches, placing poets in their social, historical, political, cultural, and critical contexts and showing how their works mirror the eras in which they were written. Readers will learn about surrealism, ekphrastic poetry, pastoral elegy, the Black Mountain poets, and "language" poetry. There are long and rich entries on modernism and postmodernism as well as entries related to the formal and technical dimensions of American poetry.
Particular attention is paid to women poets and poets from various ethnic groups. Poets such as Amiri Baraka, Nathaniel Mackey, Natasha Trethewey, and Tracy Smith are featured. The encyclopedia also contains entries on a wide selection of Latino and Native American poets and substantial coverage of the avant-garde and experimental movements and provides sidebars that illuminate key points.
American poetry springs up out of all walks of life; its poems are "maternal as well as paternal...stuff'd with the stuff that is coarse and stuff'd with the stuff that is fine," as Walt Whitman wrote, adding "Of every hue and caste am I, of every rank and religion."
Written for high school and undergraduate students, this two-volume encyclopedia covers U.S. poetry from the Colonial era to the present, offering full treatments of hundreds of key poets of the American canon. What sets this reference apart is that it also discusses events, movements, schools, and poetic approaches, placing poets in their social, historical, political, cultural, and critical contexts and showing how their works mirror the eras in which they were written. Readers will learn about surrealism, ekphrastic poetry, pastoral elegy, the Black Mountain poets, and "language" poetry. There are long and rich entries on modernism and postmodernism as well as entries related to the formal and technical dimensions of American poetry.
Particular attention is paid to women poets and poets from various ethnic groups. Poets such as Amiri Baraka, Nathaniel Mackey, Natasha Trethewey, and Tracy Smith are featured. The encyclopedia also contains entries on a wide selection of Latino and Native American poets and substantial coverage of the avant-garde and experimental movements and provides sidebars that illuminate key points.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Weight
2098 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-61069-831-3 (9781610698313)
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Jeffrey Gray, PhD, is professor of English at Seton Hall University, South Orange, NJ.
Mary McAleer Balkun, PhD, is professor of English and chairperson of the English department at Seton Hall University, South Orange, NJ.
James McCorkle, PhD, teaches in the Africana Studies Program at Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, NY.
Mary McAleer Balkun, PhD, is professor of English and chairperson of the English department at Seton Hall University, South Orange, NJ.
James McCorkle, PhD, teaches in the Africana Studies Program at Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, NY.
Content
Preface
Introduction
Chronology
Volume 1
African American Poetry
Ammons, A.R. (1926-2001)
Angelou, Maya (1928-2014)
Ashbery, John (1927- )
Asian American Poetry
Auden, W.H. (1907-1973)
Baraka, Amiri (1934-2014)
Barlow, Joel (1754-1812)
Bay Psalm Book (1640)
Beat Poetry
Benet, Stephen Vincent (1898-1943)
Bernstein, Charles (1950- )
Berryman, John (1914-1972)
Bidart, Frank (1939- )
Bishop, Elizabeth (1911-1979)
Black Arts Movement
Black Mountain School
Bleecker, Ann Eliza (1752-1783)
Bly, Robert (1926- )
Bradstreet, Anne (1612-1672)
Brooks, Gwendolyn (1917-2000)
Bryant, William Cullen (1794-1878)
Caribbean Poetry
Clifton, Lucille (1936-2010)
Collins, Billy (1941-)
Concrete Poetry
Confessional Poetry
Cooke, 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 Image
Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)
Dunbar, Paul Laurence (1872-1906)
Dwight, Timothy (1752-1817)
Ecopoetics
Elegy
Eliot, T.S. (1888-1965)
Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882)
Forche, Carolyn (1950- )
Forten, Sarah Louisa (1812-1884)
Free Verse
Freneau, 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 Renaissance
Harper, 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)
Imagism
Jarrell, Randall (1914-1965)
Jeffers, Robinson (1887-1962)
Johnson, James Weldon (1871-1938)
Jordan, June (1936-2002)
Juana Ines 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 Poetry
Lanier, Sidney (1842-1881)
Larcom, Lucy (1824-1893)
Latino Poetry in the United States
Lazarus, 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 Poetry
Volume 2
Masters, 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)
Modernism
Moore, Clement Clarke (1779-1863)
Moore, Marianne (1887-1972)
Morton, Sarah Wentworth (1759-1846)
Narrative Poetry
Nash, Ogden (1902-1971)
Native American Poetry
New Criticism
New Formalism
New York School
Objectivist Poetry
O'Hara, Frank (1926-1966)
Olds, Sharon (1942- )
Olson, Charles (1910-1970)
Parker, Dorothy (1893-1967)
Pastoral
Performance Poetry
Pinsky, Robert (1940- )
Plath, Sylvia (1932-1963)
Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849)
Postmodern Poetics
Pound, Ezra (1885-1972)
Projective Verse
Prose Poem
Prosody and Versification
Rexroth, 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 Renaissance
Schoolcraft, 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 Bibliography
About the Editors and Contributors
Index
Introduction
Chronology
Volume 1
African American Poetry
Ammons, A.R. (1926-2001)
Angelou, Maya (1928-2014)
Ashbery, John (1927- )
Asian American Poetry
Auden, W.H. (1907-1973)
Baraka, Amiri (1934-2014)
Barlow, Joel (1754-1812)
Bay Psalm Book (1640)
Beat Poetry
Benet, Stephen Vincent (1898-1943)
Bernstein, Charles (1950- )
Berryman, John (1914-1972)
Bidart, Frank (1939- )
Bishop, Elizabeth (1911-1979)
Black Arts Movement
Black Mountain School
Bleecker, Ann Eliza (1752-1783)
Bly, Robert (1926- )
Bradstreet, Anne (1612-1672)
Brooks, Gwendolyn (1917-2000)
Bryant, William Cullen (1794-1878)
Caribbean Poetry
Clifton, Lucille (1936-2010)
Collins, Billy (1941-)
Concrete Poetry
Confessional Poetry
Cooke, 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 Image
Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)
Dunbar, Paul Laurence (1872-1906)
Dwight, Timothy (1752-1817)
Ecopoetics
Elegy
Eliot, T.S. (1888-1965)
Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882)
Forche, Carolyn (1950- )
Forten, Sarah Louisa (1812-1884)
Free Verse
Freneau, 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 Renaissance
Harper, 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)
Imagism
Jarrell, Randall (1914-1965)
Jeffers, Robinson (1887-1962)
Johnson, James Weldon (1871-1938)
Jordan, June (1936-2002)
Juana Ines 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 Poetry
Lanier, Sidney (1842-1881)
Larcom, Lucy (1824-1893)
Latino Poetry in the United States
Lazarus, 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 Poetry
Volume 2
Masters, 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)
Modernism
Moore, Clement Clarke (1779-1863)
Moore, Marianne (1887-1972)
Morton, Sarah Wentworth (1759-1846)
Narrative Poetry
Nash, Ogden (1902-1971)
Native American Poetry
New Criticism
New Formalism
New York School
Objectivist Poetry
O'Hara, Frank (1926-1966)
Olds, Sharon (1942- )
Olson, Charles (1910-1970)
Parker, Dorothy (1893-1967)
Pastoral
Performance Poetry
Pinsky, Robert (1940- )
Plath, Sylvia (1932-1963)
Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849)
Postmodern Poetics
Pound, Ezra (1885-1972)
Projective Verse
Prose Poem
Prosody and Versification
Rexroth, 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 Renaissance
Schoolcraft, 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 Bibliography
About the Editors and Contributors
Index