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Handbook of American Poetry
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Edited by:
Sabine Sielke
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English
Published/Copyright:
2025
About this book
This handbook offers scholars an overview of the state of research and students a sense of how American poetry – from its first forms evolving in the 17th-century settler colonies to its current digital modes – has addressed issues and experiences central to human consciousness and to political life over five centuries of cultural practice. At the same time, it aims to show how poetry, philosophy, and theory have always been involved in productive dialogues.
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Sabine Sielke, University of Bonn, Germany.
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Frontmatter
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Editors’ Preface
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Contents
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Introduction
XI - Part I: How Poetry Makes Things Happen
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1 Framing Modern Subjectivity: Poetry and Experience
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2 Poetry, Politics, and the Politics of Poetry: How Poems Interfere
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3 Tuning in on Sister Arts: Poetry and Music
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4 Poetry and Modes of Humor
73 - Part II: American Poetry and Poetics Up Close: From the Puritans to Postmodernity and Beyond
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5 Poetry and the Puritan Ethic: Anne Bradstreet, Samuel Danforth, Edward Taylor
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6 Neoclassicism and Nation-Building: The Poetry of Phillis Wheatley and Philip Freneau
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7 The Price of Poetry: Horton, Larcom, Longfellow, Lowell, Holmes
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8 Romanticism, Transcendentalism, Environmentalism: The Ecological Poetics of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and Margaret Fuller
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9 Mind, Body, and Consciousness: The Poetry of Edgar Allan Poe and Emily Dickinson
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10 Poetry at War: Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, and Stephen Crane
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11 Modern(ist) American Poetry
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12 Modernist Materialities: Objects in Poetry
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13 Poet-Anthropologists and Boasian “Culture”: Edward Sapir, Ruth Benedict, Margaret Mead
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14 The Poet-Critics, Regionalism, and the Rise of Formalism
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15 Unconventionally Conventional: Elizabeth Bishop and the Modernization of Traditional Forms
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16 Poetic Modes of Early Postmodernism: Black Mountain School, Beat Movement, New York School
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17 Poetry as Confession? The Cases of Anne Sexton, W. D. Snodgrass, and Sylvia Plath
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18 African American Poetry: From the Harlem Renaissance to the Black Arts Movement and Beyond
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19 Poetry as Feminist Critique
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20 Words in Performance: The Art and Poetics of Language Poetry
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21 How Poetry Matters Now
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Name Index
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Subject Index
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List of Contributors
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eBook published on:
January 27, 2025
eBook ISBN:
9783110595079
Hardcover published on:
January 27, 2025
Hardcover ISBN:
9783110592368
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Front matter:
29
Main content:
465
Audience(s) for this book
Academics (Anglophone Literary and Cultural Studies), Students (BA, MA and PhD level), Libraries, Institutes
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