The Continuity of American Poetry by Roy Harvey Pearce

The Continuity of American Poetry

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and responded forthrightly. I have done my best -- knowing full well
that often it would not be enough -- to profit from their counsel.I like to think that Edward Hooker, Raymond Dexter Havens, and
William Hildreth have been tutelary spirits, presiding over the com-
position of this book; and that William Matthews, Don Cameron
Allen, A. O. Lovejoy, and Ludwig Edelstein -- when they see it -- will
again realize that they are chief among those who have taught me
to read and write.Portions of the book have appeared previously, most often in con-
siderably different form, in The New England Quarterly, Publications
of the Modern Language Association, Modern Language Notes, The
Yale Review, The Hudson Review, The Kenyon Review, and The
International Literary Annual. I am grateful to their editors for allow-
ing me to use material copyrighted by their publications.The dedicatory poem is Josephine Miles "Selected Essay". I thank
her for letting me quote it as a poem nearly anonymous.Material in copyright is quoted, with permission, as follows:

	From The First Century of New England Verse, by Harold S. Jantz, Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, October 1943, Reprinted by permission of the American Antiquarian Society.
	From Collected Poems, copyright 1953 by Conrad Aiken. Reprinted by permission of Oxford University Press, Inc.
	From A Letter from Li Po, copyright 1955 by Conrad Aiken. Re- printed by permission of Oxford University Press, Inc.
	From Sheepfold Hill, copyright 1958 by Conrad Aiken. Reprinted by permission of Sagamore Press.
	From The Collected Poems of Hart Crane, Blak and Gold Library, $3.50. Published by Liveright, Publishers, New York. Copyright: 1933, Liveright, Inc.
	From Thomas H. Johnson, ed., The Poems of Emily Dickinson, copyright 1951, 1955 by The President and Fellows of Harvard Col- lege. Reprinted by permission of The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.
	From The Poems of Emily Dickinson, ed. Martha Dickinson Bianchi and Alfred Leete Hampson, copyright 1890, 1891, 1896 by Roberts Brothers. Copyright 1914, 1918, 1919, 1924, 1929, 1930 by Martha Dickinson Bianchi. Reprinted by permission of Little, Brown & Co.
	From Thomas H. Johnson, Emily Dickinson: An Interpretive Biog૛aphy

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Publication Information: Book Title: The Continuity of American Poetry. Contributors: Roy Harvey Pearce - author. Publisher: Princeton University Press. Place of Publication: Princeton, NJ. Publication Year: 1961. Page Number: viii.

Title Page

For Marie, Joanna, and Robert

Acknowledgments

Contents

Chapter One: Foreword: Toward An "Inside Narrative"

Chapter Two: Origins: Poetry and The Puritan Imagination

Chapter Three: The Long VIew: An American Epic

Chapter Four: American Renaissance (1): The Poet As Simple, Separate Person

Chapter Five: American Renaissance (2): the Poet And the People

Chapter Six: The Old Poetry and the New

Chapter Seven: The Modern Age (1): Counter-Current

Chapter Eight: The Modern Age (2): Talent and The Individualist Tradition

Chapter Nine: The Modern Age (3): Wallace Stevens And the Ultimate Poem

Chapter Ten: Afterword: the Idea of Poetry And the Idea of Man

Index

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