The Poet and the Gilded Age: Social Themes in Late 19th Century American Verse

Table of contents

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• Title Page ii
• Preface vii
• Acknowledgments xiii
• Contents xv
• Contents xvii
• Title Page xix
• I - The Poet and the Gilded Age 1
• II - Westward to Destiny 14
• III - Gotham and Gomorrah 37
• IV - Progress and Protest 62
• V - Statesmen and Spoilsmen 113
• VI - Wine and Women, a Song of Reform 147
• VII - Immigration and Internationalism 176
• VIII - For Darwin, for Mammon, and for Country 210
• IX - The Poet and the Age of Guilt 259
• Appendix - An Experiment in Quantitative Appraisal 291

• Title Page ii
• Preface vii
• Acknowledgments xiii
• Contents xv
• Contents xvii
• Title Page xix
• I - The Poet and the Gilded Age 1
• II - Westward to Destiny 14
• III - Gotham and Gomorrah 37
• IV - Progress and Protest 62
• V - Statesmen and Spoilsmen 113
• VI - Wine and Women, a Song of Reform 147
• VII - Immigration and Internationalism 176
• VIII - For Darwin, for Mammon, and for Country 210
• IX - The Poet and the Age of Guilt 259
• Appendix - An Experiment in Quantitative Appraisal 291
• Bibliography 303
• Index 375