Frontmatter

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Editors’ Preface V
3. Contents VII
4. Introduction XI
5. Part I: How Poetry Makes Things Happen
6. 1 Framing Modern Subjectivity: Poetry and Experience 1
7. 2 Poetry, Politics, and the Politics of Poetry: How Poems Interfere 29
8. 3 Tuning in on Sister Arts: Poetry and Music 53
9. 4 Poetry and Modes of Humor 73
10. Part II: American Poetry and Poetics Up Close: From the Puritans to Postmodernity and Beyond
11. 5 Poetry and the Puritan Ethic: Anne Bradstreet, Samuel Danforth, Edward Taylor 97
12. 6 Neoclassicism and Nation-Building: The Poetry of Phillis Wheatley and Philip Freneau 113
13. 7 The Price of Poetry: Horton, Larcom, Longfellow, Lowell, Holmes 131
14. 8 Romanticism, Transcendentalism, Environmentalism: The Ecological Poetics of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and Margaret Fuller 151
15. 9 Mind, Body, and Consciousness: The Poetry of Edgar Allan Poe and Emily Dickinson 173
16. 10 Poetry at War: Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, and Stephen Crane 195
17. 11 Modern(ist) American Poetry 215
18. 12 Modernist Materialities: Objects in Poetry 237
19. 13 Poet-Anthropologists and Boasian “Culture”: Edward Sapir, Ruth Benedict, Margaret Mead 259
20. 14 The Poet-Critics, Regionalism, and the Rise of Formalism 279
21. 15 Unconventionally Conventional: Elizabeth Bishop and the Modernization of Traditional Forms 301
22. 16 Poetic Modes of Early Postmodernism: Black Mountain School, Beat Movement, New York School 317
23. 17 Poetry as Confession? The Cases of Anne Sexton, W. D. Snodgrass, and Sylvia Plath 343
24. 18 African American Poetry: From the Harlem Renaissance to the Black Arts Movement and Beyond 359
25. 19 Poetry as Feminist Critique 375
26. 20 Words in Performance: The Art and Poetics of Language Poetry 395
27. 21 How Poetry Matters Now 417
28. Name Index 437
29. Subject Index 451
30. List of Contributors 463