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Books on: american poetry history

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The Columbia History of American Poetry

Book by Jay Parini, Brett C. Millier; Columbia University Press, 1993

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American Poetry--History And Criticism

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...essays entitled In the American Grain , which provides...on the poets view of history in his poetry, Williams turned his...subconscious in Williamss poetry is his chapter on Poe...American Grain , as in his poetry, Williams wants to recapture...
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Paratextual Communities: American Avant-Garde Poetry since 1950

Book by Susan Vanderborg; Southern Illinois University Press, 2001

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American Poetry--20th Century--History And Criticism, Avant-Garde (Aesthetics)--United States--History--20th Century, Experimental Poetry, American--History And Criticism, Intertextuality, Poetry--History And Criticism--Theory, Etc

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Paratextual communities : American avant-garde poetry since 1950 / Susan Vanderborg...and index. 1. American poetry 20th century History and criticism. 2. Avant...century. 3. Experimental poetry, American History and criticism...
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Invisible Fences: Prose Poetry as a Genre in French and American Literature

Book by Steven Monte; University of Nebraska Press, 2000

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American Poetry--History And Criticism, French Poetry--History And Criticism, Prose Poems, American--History And Criticism, Prose Poems, French--History And Criticism

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...Invisible fences : prose poetry as a genre in French and American literature / Steven Monte...Prose poems, French - History and criticism. 2. French poetry History and criticism...criticism. 4. American poetry - History and criticism...
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The New Red Negro: The Literary Left and African American Poetry, 1930-1946

Book by James Edward Smethurst; Oxford University Press, 1999

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African Americans In Literature, African Americans--Intellectual Life--20th Century, African Americans--Politics And Government, American Poetry--20th Century--History And Criticism, American Poetry--African American Authors--History And Criticism, Communism And Literature--United States--History--20th Century, Political Poetry, American--History And Criticism, Race Relations In Literature, Right And Left (Political Science) In Literature, United States--Race Relations

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...X 1. American poetry -- Afro-American authors -- History and criticism...century. 3. American poetry -- 20th century...4. Political poetry, American -- History and...literature. 6. Afro-Americans -- Intellectual...
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Making Something Happen: American Political Poetry between the World Wars

Book by Michael Thurston; University of North Carolina Press, 2001

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American Poetry--20th Century--History And Criticism, Political Poetry, American--History And Criticism, Politics And Literature--United States--History--20th Century, World War, 1914-1918--Influence, World War, 1939-1945--Causes

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Making something happen : American political poetry between the world wars / Michael...alk. paper) 1. American poetry 20th century History and criticism. 2. Politics...20th century. 3. Political poetry, American History and criticism...

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Journal Articles on: american poetry history

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Remembrances of Left Pasts: History, Memory, and the Literary Left: Modern American Poetry, 1935-1968

Journal article by Tyrus Miller; Twentieth Century Literature, Vol. 54, 2008

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American poetry--Criticism and interpretation, College faculty--Criticism and interpretation, College faculty--Works, College teachers--Criticism and interpretation, College teachers--Works, History, Memory, and the Literary Left: Modern American Poetry, 1935-1968 (Nonfiction work)--Criticism and interpretation, Lowney, John--Criticism and interpretation, Lowney, John--Works, Modernism--Analysis

Collections: History, Literature, Entire Library

...Remembrances of Left Pasts: History, Memory, and the Literary Left: Modern American Poetry, 1935-1968. by Tyrus...for a late-modernist poetry version of a Steve Allen...oriented, late-modernist poetry. This multiply qualified...
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Sacvan Bercovitch, the Cambridge History of American Literature. Volume Five: Poetry and Criticism, 1900-1950

Journal article by Michael Boyden; American Studies International, Vol. 42, 2004

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Books--Book reviews, The Cambridge History of American Literature. Volume Five: Poetry and Criticism, 1900-1950 (Book)--Book reviews, The Cambridge History of American Literature. Volume Six: Prose Writing, 1910-1950 (Book)

Collections: History, Literature, Entire Library

...important modernist poetry appeared after that...distinction between prose and poetry is hard to maintain...does not appear in the poetry chronology. On the...Steins The Making of Americans is included as "experimental...confusion for the student of American literature. A cumulative...those of the Spiller history. Even more interesting...
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Get Your Ass in the Water and Swim like Me: African American Narrative Poetry from Oral Tradition

Journal article by Valerie F. Kinloch; The Journal of African American History, Vol. 91, 2006

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Books--Book reviews, Get Your Ass in the Water and Swim Like Me: African American Narrative Poetry from Oral Tradition (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Water and Swim like Me: African American Narrative Poetry from Oral Tradition. by Valerie...Me: African American Narrative Poetry from Oral Tradition. New York...comparison to other cultural genres: poetry, speechmaking, signifying...
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From Fathers to Sun: Northrop Frye and the History of English-Canadian Poetry

Journal article by Philip Kokotailo; American Review of Canadian Studies, Vol. 29, 1999

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Canadian poetry--Criticism and interpretation, Frye, Northrop, Literary criticism

Collections: History, Literature, Entire Library

...Canadian literary history: an obsessive...British and American contemporaries" ("Poetry" 86). It...tradition: poetry that concentrates...Canadian from American culture...the Literary History of Canada...Yet in poetry, for Frye...
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"Lest Harlem Sees Red": Race and Class Themes in the Poetry of Langston Hughes, 1920-1942

Journal article by Sundiata Keita Cha-Jua; Afro - Americans in New York Life and History, Vol. 19, 1995

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Literature, Poetry

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...time Hughes political poetry can be divided into...comparing a young African American woman to a Kemetan queen...reconnected African Americans to their African heritage. Hughes learned Black history from his grandmother...unlike most African American youth, then and now...his desire to write poetry like Carl Sandburg...

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Magazine Articles on: american poetry history

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Looking through the Eyes of Injustice: Integrating Poetry and African-american History

Magazine article by Cassandra Pierce-Thomas; Multicultural Education, Vol. 14, Summer 2007

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African Americans, American history, Gossip, Guidelines, Language arts, Learning, Poetry, Prejudice

Collections: Education, History, Entire Library

...lengthy, so the history teacher and...the African-Americans whose life...first poem. Poetry at Last! Memoir...an African-American A memoir is...is shared in poetry form. Normally...look at their histories by listing...an African-American History calendar that...great African- Americans and their accomplishments...Ecphrastic Poetry Ecphrastic...
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Poetry and American Memory

Magazine article by Robert Pinsky; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 284, October 1999

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American poetry, Literary themes, Memory, United States

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

Poetry and American Memory. by Robert Pinsky Who do we Americans think we are...great issues in American public life are...our future in the poetry of our past, finding...the evolution of American memory. Part of...myth of origin. Americans have been suckled...who writes on the history of science, describes...
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Thomas Hardy & American Poetry

Magazine article by David Yezzi; New Criterion, Vol. 18, December 1999

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American poetry--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Hardy, Thomas--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Poetry--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Poets--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

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...British practice: "American poetry came to splendid...present century when American poets, if they needed...Under Briggflatts: A History of Poetry in Great Britain...could not be said for American poetry, in which the modernism...
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Of Lapdogs & Loners: American Poetry Today

Magazine article by Eric Ormsby; New Criterion, Vol. 22, April 2004

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American poetry--Criticism and interpretation, Poets laureate--Criticism and interpretation

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...Amp; Loners: American Poetry Today. by Eric...in contemporary American poetry, they are often...a sampling of American poets had been...not merely bad poetry. It is bad poetry...poets in world history, let alone in...
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The John Wilkes Booth of Poetry

Magazine article by Bill Kauffman; The American Enterprise, Vol. 10, September 1999

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American poetry--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Lincoln, Abraham--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Masters, Edgar Lee--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

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The John Wilkes Booth of Poetry by Bill Kauffman Once upon a time, Americans bought books of poetry, and no volume was better loved than Edgar...even the score, given that"the political history of America has been written ... by centralists...

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Newspaper Articles on: american poetry history

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MCC to Celebrate African-American History Month

Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), February 1, 2012

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African Americans

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...to Celebrate African-American History Month. Byline: Submitted...African influence on American music and national award...will conclude with a Poetry Slam and Open Mic featuring...welcome to share music, poetry, spoken word, prose...
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MCC Kicks off African-American History Events

Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), January 24, 2011

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African Americans--Conferences, meetings and seminars

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...MCC Kicks off African-American History Events. McHenry County...kicked off African-American History Month a couple...Steve Young. Feb. 16: Poetry Slam, a contest for...opportunity to perform poetry at Stage Left Caf in...
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Arts: Poetry, His Potent Weapon

Newspaper article; Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England), October 19, 2007

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Black History Month, Poetry, Poets, Theater--Theater reviews

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Liverpools take on Black History Month. "I came to poetry through politics...Carter from Guyana. "Poetry, for me, is the distillation...my overall view of poetry has broadened since...celebrity reading at an American university, the host...
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American Culture, Living Poetry, Thread

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, March 23, 2003

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

American culture, living poetry, thread Byline: Surekha Vijh...iconography and scholarly pursuit. If history and poetry go together, language and culture...nuances and moods of an era. American poetry is young yet this newness strikes...
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Civil War Poetry, and an American Modernist

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, May 8, 2005

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Roethke, Theodore

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...War Poetry, and an American Modernist. Byline...chapters in our nations history, a time whose effects...development of American poetry. Mr. McClatchy, the...students of American poetry. Others, including...19th century American poetry. The Dickinson poems...of the newer literary histories of American poetry do...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: american poetry history

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Spanish American Literature

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

SPANISH AMERICAN LITERATURE the...Colonial Era The history of Spanish American...chronicles, letters, histories, religious pieces...a remarkable history of the conquest...Spain. Early poetry includes Chiles...Anthology of Latin American Folklore in Literature...Fiction and Poetry from Spanish...Literature: A History (2 vol., 2d...
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American Literature

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...journalistic histories of John Winthrop...Even Puritan poetry was offered...by presenting American folk stories...the hearts of Americans with glib...were strongly American, and transcendentalists...Their solemn histories were as distinctly American as the broadly...and emotional poetry, clearly expressed...
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Gregory, Horace

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...HORACE 1898 1982, American poet and critic, b...Wisconsin, 1923. His poetry is noted for its dramatic...Among his volumes of poetry are Chelsea Rooming House...1944), essays on poetry; A History of American Poetry...
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Kreymborg, Alfred

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...KREYMBORG, ALFRED kram borg, 1883 1966, American poet and anthologist, b. New York City...and Man and Shadow (1946). He chronicled American poetry in such works as the critical history Our Singing Strength (1929, 1934) and the...
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Bogan, Louise

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...bo g n, 1897 1970, American poet and critic, b...was for many years poetry editor for The New...Among her volumes of poetry are Body of This Death...include a literary history, Achievement in American Poetry, 1900 1950 (1950...

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