The Cambridge Companion to American Poets [Hardcover]

This Companion brings together essays on some fifty-four American poets, from Anne Bradstreet to contemporary performance poetry.This Companion brings together essays on some fifty-four American poets, from Anne Bradstreet to contemporary performance poetry. This book also examines such movements in American poetry as modernism, the Harlem (or New Negro) Renaissance, confessional poetry, the Black Mountain School, the New York School, the Beats, and L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poetry.This Companion brings together essays on some fifty-four American poets, from Anne Bradstreet to contemporary performance poetry. This book also examines such movements in American poetry as modernism, the Harlem (or New Negro) Renaissance, confessional poetry, the Black Mountain School, the New York School, the Beats, and L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poetry.The Cambridge Companion to American Poets brings together thirty-one essays on some fifty-four American poets, spanning nearly 400 years, from Anne Bradstreet to contemporary performance poetry. This book also examines such movements in American poetry as modernism, the Harlem (or New Negro) Renaissance, confessional poetry, the Black Mountain School, the New York School, the Beats, and L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poetry. Its reputable host of contributors approach American poetry from perspectives as diverse as the poetry itself. The result is a Companion concise enough to be read with pleasure yet expansive enough to do justice to the many traditions American poets have modified, inaugurated, and made their own.1. 'The first shall be last': apology and redemption in the work of the first New England poets, Anne Bradstreet and Edward Taylor Charlotte Gordon; 2. Phillis Wheatley Carla Willard; 3. The historical epic, women's poetry, and early American verse Kerry Larson; 4. The first this time: Longfellow, Lowell, Holmes, Whittier Christoph Irmscher; 5. Ralph Waldo Emerson Mark Scott; 6. Edgar Allan Poe Kevin Hayes; 7. Walt Whitman David S. Reynolds; 8. Melville l£"