The Cambridge Companion to Nineteenth-Century American Poetry

Abstract

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 Jessica Roberts 10. Poe and Southern poetry Jack Kerkering 11. The color line: James Monroe Whitfield and Albery Allson Whitman Ivy Wilson 12. Colonial violence and poetic transcendence in Whitman's 'Song of Myself' Donald Pease 13. Emily Dickinson's 'turban'd seas' Cristanne Miller Selected guide to further reading.