The Columbia History of American Poetry

Table of contents

• Title Page iii
• Contents v
• Introduction ix
• Anne Bradstreet and Edward Taylor 1
• Further Reading 14
• Early African American Poetry 16
• Further Reading 31
• The Epic in the Nineteenth Century 33
• Further Reading 63
• Longfellow in the Aftermath of Modernism 64
• Further Reading 96
• The American Transcendentalist Poets 97
• Further Reading 120
• Emily Dickinson 121
• Futher Reading 147
• Walt Whitman's Revisionary Democracy 148
• Further Reading 171
• Edgar Allan Poe 172
• Further Reading 202
• Lowell, Teasdale, Wylie, Millay, and Bogan 203
• Further Reading 231
• Women Poets and the Emergence of Modernisn 233
• Further Reading 259
• Robert Frost and the Poetry of Survival 260
• Further Reading 283
• Ezra Pound's Imagist Aesthetics: Lustra to Mauberley 284
• Further Reading 318
• T. S. Eliot 319
• Further Reading 342
• Marianne Moore and Elizabeth Bishop 343
• Further Reading 369
• Wallace Stevens 370
• Further Reading 393
• William Carlos Williams 395
• Further Reading 417
• Hart Crane's Difficult Passage 419
• Further Reading 450
• The Poetry of the Harlem Renaissance 452
• Further Reading 476
• Warren, with Ransom and Tate 477
• Further Reading 505
• American Auden 506
• Further Reading 532
• The Twentieth-Century Long Poem 534
• Further Reading 563
• Public Music 564
• Beat Poetry and the San Francisco Poetry Renaissance 581
• Further Reading 604
• John Berryman, Theodore Roethke, and the Elegy 605
• Further Reading 630
• What Was Confessional Poetry? 632
• Further Reading 648
• The Postconfessional Lyric 650
• Further Reading 672
• The Black Arts Poets 674
• Further Reading 727
• Native American Poetry 728
• Further Reading 749
• James Merrill and John Ashbery 750
• Further Reading 775
• The Visionary Poetics of Philip Levine and Charles Wright 777
• Further Reading 806
• Contributors 807
• Index 811

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