The Cambridge Companion to Nineteenth-Century Poetry Kerry Larson, Editor. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2011.In his introduction to The Cambridge Companion to Nineteenth-Century Poetry, editor Kerry Larson points out produced in the nineteenth century some time has indeed seemed less like a field of study in its own right than the collected works of two writers of genius surrounded by a host of lesser lights (1).Larson and his contributors provide this formerly neglected body of literature, and several of the neglected poets and cultures, the treatment and scholarship they deserve, as he has selected several essays will shed new light on little-studied authors and movements, as well as exciting new insights into the poets of the canon.Larson divides the book into two sections: the first half dealing with larger movements and themes within the time period and a second concerning the works of individual authors and the places they inhabit in the conversation of nineteenth-century poetry. The selections Larson chose are not only well written, but also well researched and provide copious endnotes to each chapter. Following the style of other titles in the Cambridge Companion series, the volume provides a timeline of major events in the era and an extensive bibliography of critical works and anthologies for further study.Robert Dale Parker's American Indian Poetry in the Nineteenth Century takes up the revolutionary task of introducing the range and preoccupations of early Indian poetry (36). Parker's chapter considers this movement and topics such as manifest destiny, The Dawes Act, and the Euro-American Romantic sentiment of Indian nature poetry. As Kerry Larson points out in his introduction to the volume, the study of Indian is still a work in progress, and with this chapter Parker hopes to shift the way readers approach Indians and the thinking about Indians in poems by non-Indians and remind readers that Indians are not the passive or fading objects they are often imagined to be (50-51).Eliza Richards' Weathering the News in the Civil provides one the of the volume's most intriguing chapters. Richards argues Civil War draws sustained parallels between weather and the circulation and reception of news in wartime (115). During the Civil War, poets adapted to advances in mass media and needed to find ways to shape, motivate, rationalize, and analyze the war efforts through their poetry. …