The Cambridge companion to nineteenth-century American poetry - Larson, Kerry C. (Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011)
Introduction / Kerry Larson -- Part I. Mandates, movements, and manifestos. 1. The reception of nineteenth-century American poetry / Mary Louise Kete -- 2. American Indian poetry in the nineteenth century / Robert Dale Parker -- 3. The poet as poetess / Virginia Jackson -- 4. Transcendental poetics / Stephen Cushman -- 5. Slavery and its metrics / Max Cavitch -- 6. Weathering the news in US Civil War poetry / Eliza Richards -- 7. The "twilight of the poets" in the era of American realism, 1875-1900 / Elizabeth Renker -- Part II. Individual authors. 8. Longfellow's ambivalence / Stephen Burt -- 9. Sarah Piatt's grammar of convention and the conditions of authorship / Jess Roberts -- 10. Poe and Southern poetry / John D. Kerkering -- 11. The color line : James Monroe Whitfield and Albery Allson Whitman / Ivy G. Wilson -- 12. Colonial violence and poetic transcendence in Whitman's "Song of myself" / Donald Pease -- 13. Emily Dickinson's "turban'd seas" / Cristanne Miller.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-269) and index.
Keywords: American poetry -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Poets, American; American poetry; Poets, American; Amerikansk poesi -- historia -- 1800-talet.; 1800-1899; Criticism, interpretation, etc