{"product_id":"a-history-of-american-poetry-hardback-9781118795347","title":"A History of American Poetry (Hardback) 9781118795347","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eA History of American Poetry\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cp\u003e“In his preface to this work, Richard Gray says that he has “tried to be faithful to the sheer range and plurality of the American poetic tradition,” and much the most impressive feature of this work is the “sheer range” of authors it covers. Extending from Philip Freneau at the end of the eighteenth century to emerging Asian-American poets at the beginning of the twenty-first, this book offers the reader a compendious, almost encyclopaedic range, which treats every facet of American poetry … Gray writes fluently and with stylistic brio about a very large range of American poets, and he manages to convey a strong sense not only of his commitment to this field but also his enjoyment of it.”—\u003ci\u003ePaul Giles, University  of Sydney\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e “Richard Gray's \u003ci\u003eHistory of American Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e has great appeal for both specialized scholars and general readers.  Gray's lucid prose style and sensitive analyses allow us to gain valuable insights into American poetry seen within its historical context.”—\u003ci\u003eSusan Castillo, King’s College London\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eRichard Gray (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781118795347, Wiley\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 20 March 2015\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e544 pages\u003cbr\u003e25.2 x 17.8 x 2.5 cm, 0.971 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eA History of American Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e presents a comprehensive exploration of the development of American poetic traditions from their pre-Columbian origins to the present day.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eOffers a detailed and accessible account of the entire range of American poetry\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eSituates the story of American poetry within crucial social and historical contexts, and places individual poets and poems in the relevant intertextual contexts\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eExplores and interprets American poetry in terms of the international positioning and multicultural character of the United States\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eProvides readers with a means to understand the individual works and personalities that helped to shape one of the most significant bodies of literature of the past few centuries\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface and Acknowledgments x\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e1 The American Poem 1\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe United States … the Greatest Poem 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Poem is You 8\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Breaking of the New Wood 21\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eForging the Uncreated Conscience of the Nation 27\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2 Beginnings 39\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn My Beginning is My End 39\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe word and the Word: Colonial Poetry 44\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTowards the Secular: Colonial Poetry 53\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWriting Revolution: The Poetry of the Emergent Republic 57\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcross the Great Divide: Poetry of the South and the North 63\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTo Sing the Nation: American Poetic Voices 69\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTo Sing of Freedom: African American Voices 89\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLooking Before and After: Poetic Voices of Region and Nation 91\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e3 The Turn to the Modern: Imagism, Objectivism, and Some Major Innovators 106\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Revolution is Accomplished 106\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Significance of Imagism 111\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom Imagism to Objectivism or Dream 115\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom Imagism to the Redemption of History 128\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom Imagism to Contact and Community 136\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom Imagism to Discovery of the Imagination 141\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e4 In Search of a Past: The Fugitive Movement and the Major Traditionalists 153\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Precious, the Incommunicable Past 153\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Significance of the Fugitives 157\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTraditionalism and the South 160\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTraditionalism Outside the South 174\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTraditionalism, Skepticism, and Tragedy 179\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTraditionalism, Quiet Desperation, and Belief 185\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTraditionalism, Inhumanism, and Prophecy 191\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e5 The Traditions of Whitman: Other Poets from Between the Wars 201\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMake this America for Us! 201\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhitman and American Populism 205\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhitman and American Radicalism 211\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhitman, American Identity, and African American Poetry 217\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhitman and American Individualism 224\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhitman and American Experimentalism 232\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhitman and American Mysticism 237\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e6 Formalists and Confessionals: American Poetry since World War II 250\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Sad Heart at the Supermarket 250\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom the Mythological Eye to the Lonely \"I\": A Progress of American Poetry since the War 253\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eVarieties of the Personal: The Self as Dream, Landscape, or Confession 258\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom Formalism to Freedom: A Progress of American Poetic\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTechniques since the War 264\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Imagination of Commitment: A Progress of American\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePoetic Themes since the War 270\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Uses of Formalism 274\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Confessional \"I\" as Primitive 278\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Confessional \"I\" as Historian 281\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Confessional \"I\" as Martyr 285\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Confessional \"I\" as Prophet 289\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNew Formalists, New Confessionals 292\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e7 Beats, Prophets, and Aesthetes: American Poetry since World War II 302\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWho Am I? 302\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRediscovering the American Voice: The Black Mountain Poets 306\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRestoring the American Vision: The San Francisco Poets 316\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRecreating American Rhythms: The Beat Poets 323\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eResurrecting the American Rebel: African American Poetry 330\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReinventing the American Self: The New York Poets 340\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnd the Beat Goes On: American Poetry and Virtual Reality 351\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e8 The Languages of American Poetry and the Language of Crisis: American Poetry into the Twenty-First Century 367\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhat is the Language of American Literature? 367\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Actuality of Words: The Language Poets 376\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Necessity of Audience: The New Formalists 384\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRemapping the Nation: Chicano\/a and Latino\/a Poetry 395\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eImprovising America: Asian American Poetry 418\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNew and Ancient Songs: The Return of the Native American 448\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLegends of the Fall: American Poetry and Crisis 476\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEpilogue: What Is an American? 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