Book contents
- The Cambridge History of American Poetry
- The Cambridge History of American Poetry
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Beginnings: Poetry before 1800
- Part II A New Nation: Poetry from 1800 to 1900
- Chapter 7 Asserting a National Voice
- Chapter 8 The Emergence of Romantic Traditions
- Chapter 9 Linen Shreds and Melons in a Field
- Chapter 10 Edgar Allan Poe’s Lost Worlds
- Chapter 11 Longfellow in His Time
- Chapter 12 Whittier, Holmes, Lowell, and the New England Tradition
- Chapter 13 Other Voices, Other Verses
- Chapter 14 American Poetry Fights the Civil War
- Chapter 15 Walt Whitman’s Invention of a Democratic Poetry
- Chapter 16 Emily Dickinson
- Chapter 17 The South in Reconstruction
- Chapter 18 The “Genteel Tradition” and Its Discontents
- Chapter 19 Disciplined Play
- Chapter 20 Dialect, Doggerel, and Local Color
- Chapter 21 Political Poets and Naturalism
- Part III Forms of Modernism, 1900–1950
- Part IV Beyond Modernism: American Poetry, 1950–2000
- Selected Bibliographies
- Index
Chapter 17 - The South in Reconstruction
White and Black Voices
from Part II - A New Nation: Poetry from 1800 to 1900
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 December 2014
- The Cambridge History of American Poetry
- The Cambridge History of American Poetry
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Beginnings: Poetry before 1800
- Part II A New Nation: Poetry from 1800 to 1900
- Chapter 7 Asserting a National Voice
- Chapter 8 The Emergence of Romantic Traditions
- Chapter 9 Linen Shreds and Melons in a Field
- Chapter 10 Edgar Allan Poe’s Lost Worlds
- Chapter 11 Longfellow in His Time
- Chapter 12 Whittier, Holmes, Lowell, and the New England Tradition
- Chapter 13 Other Voices, Other Verses
- Chapter 14 American Poetry Fights the Civil War
- Chapter 15 Walt Whitman’s Invention of a Democratic Poetry
- Chapter 16 Emily Dickinson
- Chapter 17 The South in Reconstruction
- Chapter 18 The “Genteel Tradition” and Its Discontents
- Chapter 19 Disciplined Play
- Chapter 20 Dialect, Doggerel, and Local Color
- Chapter 21 Political Poets and Naturalism
- Part III Forms of Modernism, 1900–1950
- Part IV Beyond Modernism: American Poetry, 1950–2000
- Selected Bibliographies
- Index
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- The Cambridge History of American Poetry , pp. 383 - 402Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2014