The Cambridge history of American literature. Vol. 4, Nineteenth-century poetry, 1800-1910 / general editor, Sacvan Bercovitch.
This is the first complete narrative history of nineteenth-century American poetry. Barbara Packer explores the neoclassical and satiric forms mastered by the early Federalist poets; the creative reaches of once-celebrated, and still compelling, poets like Longfellow and Whittier; the distinctive ly...
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2004.
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Table of Contents:
- AMERICAN VERSE TRADITIONS, 1800-1855 / Barbara Packer
- Preface: reverence and ambition
- Neoclassicism: comic and satiric verse
- Early narrative and lyric
- Transcendentalism
- John Greenleaf Whittier
- POETRY AND PUBLIC DISCOURSE, 1820-1910 / Shira Wolosky
- Preface: the claims of rhetoric
- Modest claims
- Claiming the bible
- Poetic languages
- Plural identities
- Walt Whitman: the office of the poet
- Emily Dickinson: the violence of the imagination
- Chronology, 1800-1910 / Neal Dolan.