Handbook of American Poetry

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Handbook of American Poetry

Edited by: Sabine Sielke

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2025

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Volume 17 | Handbooks of English and American Studies

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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 Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Editors’ Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Introduction Sabine Sielke Publicly Available Download PDF	XI
Part I: How Poetry Makes Things Happen
1 Framing Modern Subjectivity: Poetry and Experience Charles Altieri Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1
2 Poetry, Politics, and the Politics of Poetry: How Poems Interfere Astrid Franke Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	29
3 Tuning in on Sister Arts: Poetry and Music Regina Schober Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	53
4 Poetry and Modes of Humor Calista McRae Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	73
Part II: American Poetry and Poetics Up Close: From the Puritans to Postmodernity and Beyond
5 Poetry and the Puritan Ethic: Anne Bradstreet, Samuel Danforth, Edward Taylor Philipp Reisner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	97
6 Neoclassicism and Nation-Building: The Poetry of Phillis Wheatley and Philip Freneau Julia Straub Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	113
7 The Price of Poetry: Horton, Larcom, Longfellow, Lowell, Holmes Christoph Irmscher Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	131
8 Romanticism, Transcendentalism, Environmentalism: The Ecological Poetics of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and Margaret Fuller Hannes Bergthaller Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	151
9 Mind, Body, and Consciousness: The Poetry of Edgar Allan Poe and Emily Dickinson Eliza Richards Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	173
10 Poetry at War: Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, and Stephen Crane Thomas Dikant Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	195
11 Modern(ist) American Poetry Heinz Ickstadt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	215
12 Modernist Materialities: Objects in Poetry Simone Knewitz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	237
13 Poet-Anthropologists and Boasian “Culture”: Edward Sapir, Ruth Benedict, Margaret Mead A. Elisabeth Reichel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	259
14 The Poet-Critics, Regionalism, and the Rise of Formalism Timo Müller Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	279
15 Unconventionally Conventional: Elizabeth Bishop and the Modernization of Traditional Forms Andrew Gross Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	301
16 Poetic Modes of Early Postmodernism: Black Mountain School, Beat Movement, New York School Aaron Nyerges Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	317
17 Poetry as Confession? The Cases of Anne Sexton, W. D. Snodgrass, and Sylvia Plath Carsten Albers Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	343
18 African American Poetry: From the Harlem Renaissance to the Black Arts Movement and Beyond Sharon L. Jones Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	359
19 Poetry as Feminist Critique Judith Rauscher Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	375
20 Words in Performance: The Art and Poetics of Language Poetry Hannah Moeckel-Rieke Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	395
21 How Poetry Matters Now Lena Mattheis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	417
Name Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	437
Subject Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	451
List of Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	463

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eBook published on:

January 27, 2025

eBook ISBN:

9783110595079

Hardcover published on:

January 27, 2025

Hardcover ISBN:

9783110592368

Pages and Images/Illustrations in book

Front matter:

29

Main content:

465

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110595079

eBook ISBN: 9783110595079

Hardcover ISBN: 9783110592368

Keywords for this book

Gedichte; Amerikanische Literatur

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Academics (Anglophone Literary and Cultural Studies), Students (BA, MA and PhD level), Libraries, Institutes

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Handbook of American Poetry

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