Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to American Poets
- The Cambridge Companion to American Poets
- The Cambridge Companion to American Poets
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Book part
- Introduction
- 1 “The First Shall Be Last”: Apology and Redemption in the Work of the First New England Poets, Anne Bradstreet and Edward Taylor
- 2 Phillis Wheatley
- 3 The Historical Epic, Women’s Poetry, and Early American Verse
- 4 The Fire This Time: Longfellow, Lowell, Holmes, Whittier
- 5 Ralph Waldo Emerson
- 6 Edgar Allan Poe
- 7 Walt Whitman
- 8 Melville the Poet
- 9 Forever Young: Rereading Emily Dickinson in the Twenty-First Century
- 10 Paul Laurence Dunbar
- 11 Edwin Arlington Robinson
- 12 Robert Frost
- 13 Gertrude Stein
- 14 Wallace Stevens
- 15 William Carlos Williams
- 16 Ezra Pound
- 17 Marianne Moore
- 18 T. S. Eliot and American Poetry
- 19 Hart Crane’s Visionary Company
- 20 The New Negro Renaissance
- 21 Langston Hughes
- 22 Elizabeth Bishop
- 23 Gwendolyn Brooks
- 24 The Three Voices of Robert Lowell
- 25 The Black Mountain School
- 26 Jack Spicer
- 27 Allen Ginsberg: Irreverent, Reverential, and Apocalyptic American Poet
- 28 Anne Sexton, Sylvia Plath and Confessional Poetry
- 29 “Street Musicians”: Frank O’Hara and John Ashbery
- 30 Adrienne Rich: The Poetry of Witness
- 31 An “Empty Prescription”: Pleasure in Contemporary American Poetry
- Further Reading
- Index
- Series page
- References
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Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to American Poets
- The Cambridge Companion to American Poets
- The Cambridge Companion to American Poets
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Book part
- Introduction
- 1 “The First Shall Be Last”: Apology and Redemption in the Work of the First New England Poets, Anne Bradstreet and Edward Taylor
- 2 Phillis Wheatley
- 3 The Historical Epic, Women’s Poetry, and Early American Verse
- 4 The Fire This Time: Longfellow, Lowell, Holmes, Whittier
- 5 Ralph Waldo Emerson
- 6 Edgar Allan Poe
- 7 Walt Whitman
- 8 Melville the Poet
- 9 Forever Young: Rereading Emily Dickinson in the Twenty-First Century
- 10 Paul Laurence Dunbar
- 11 Edwin Arlington Robinson
- 12 Robert Frost
- 13 Gertrude Stein
- 14 Wallace Stevens
- 15 William Carlos Williams
- 16 Ezra Pound
- 17 Marianne Moore
- 18 T. S. Eliot and American Poetry
- 19 Hart Crane’s Visionary Company
- 20 The New Negro Renaissance
- 21 Langston Hughes
- 22 Elizabeth Bishop
- 23 Gwendolyn Brooks
- 24 The Three Voices of Robert Lowell
- 25 The Black Mountain School
- 26 Jack Spicer
- 27 Allen Ginsberg: Irreverent, Reverential, and Apocalyptic American Poet
- 28 Anne Sexton, Sylvia Plath and Confessional Poetry
- 29 “Street Musicians”: Frank O’Hara and John Ashbery
- 30 Adrienne Rich: The Poetry of Witness
- 31 An “Empty Prescription”: Pleasure in Contemporary American Poetry
- Further Reading
- Index
- Series page
- References
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- The Cambridge Companion to American Poets , pp. 316 - 326Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2015
References
Further Reading
Bone, Robert, and Courage, Richard, The Muse in Bronzeville: African American Creative Expression in Chicago, 1932–1950 (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2011).Google Scholar
Gayles, Gloria Wade, ed., Conversations with Gwendolyn Brooks (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2003).Google Scholar
Kent, George, A Life of Gwendolyn Brooks (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1980).Google Scholar
Melhem, D. H., Gwendolyn Brooks: Poetry and the Heroic Voice (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1987).Google Scholar
Mootry, Maria K., and Smith, Gary, eds., A Life Distilled: Gwendolyn Brooks, Her Poetry and Fiction (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1987).Google Scholar
Mullen, Bill, Popular Fronts: Chicago and African American Cultural Politics, 1935–1946 (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1999).Google Scholar
Smethurst, James Edward, The New Red Negro: The Literary Left and African American Poetry, 1930–1945 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Tracy, Steven C., ed., Writers of the Black Chicago Renaissance (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2012).Google Scholar
Washington, Mary Helen, The Other Blacklist: The African American Literary and Cultural Left of the 1950s (New York: Columbia University Press, 2014).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Wright, Stephen Caldwell, On Gwendolyn Brooks: Reliant Contemplation (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1996).CrossRefGoogle Scholar