The Cambridge History of American Literature: Volume 4, Nineteenth-Century Poetry 1800-1910Sacvan Bercovitch, Cyrus R. K. Patell Cambridge University Press, 1994 - 368 páginas This is the first complete narrative history of nineteenth-century American poetry. Barbara Packer explores the neoclassical and satiric forms mastered by the early Federalist poets; the creative reaches of once-celebrated, and still compelling, poets like Longfellow and Whittier; the distinctive lyric forms developed by Emerson and the Transcendentalists. Shira Wolosky provides a new perspective on the achievement of female poets of the period, as well as a close appreciation of African-American poets, including the collective folk authors of the Negro spirituals. She also illuminates the major works of the period, from Poe through Melville and Crane, to Whitman and Dickinson. The authors of this volume discuss this extraordinary literary achievement both in formal terms and in its sustained engagement with changing social and cultural conditions. In doing so they recover and elucidate American poetry of the nineteenth century for our twenty-first century pleasure, profit, and renewed study. |
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... texts , the expansion of material in American literature coincides with a dramatic increase in the number and variety of approaches to that material . The multifaceted scholarly and critical enterprise embodied in The Cambridge History ...
... texts , the expansion of material in American literature coincides with a dramatic increase in the number and variety of approaches to that material . The multifaceted scholarly and critical enterprise embodied in The Cambridge History ...
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... texts , the expansion of material in American literature coincides with a dramatic increase in the number and variety of approaches to that material . The multifaceted scholarly and critical enterprise embodied in The Cambridge History ...
... texts , the expansion of material in American literature coincides with a dramatic increase in the number and variety of approaches to that material . The multifaceted scholarly and critical enterprise embodied in The Cambridge History ...
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... texts have come to provide a major focus for inter- and cross - disciplinary investigation . Gender studies , ethnic studies , and popular - culture studies , among others , have penetrated to all corners of the profession , but perhaps ...
... texts have come to provide a major focus for inter- and cross - disciplinary investigation . Gender studies , ethnic studies , and popular - culture studies , among others , have penetrated to all corners of the profession , but perhaps ...
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... texts we read and the spirit in which we interpret them . Even if we acknowledge that great books , a few configurations of language raised to an extraordinary pitch of intensity , have transcended their time and place ( and even if we ...
... texts we read and the spirit in which we interpret them . Even if we acknowledge that great books , a few configurations of language raised to an extraordinary pitch of intensity , have transcended their time and place ( and even if we ...
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... texts are discussed in several narratives within a volume , because they are important to different realms of cultural experience . Sometimes the story of a certain movement is retold from differ- ent perspectives , because the story ...
... texts are discussed in several narratives within a volume , because they are important to different realms of cultural experience . Sometimes the story of a certain movement is retold from differ- ent perspectives , because the story ...
Contenido
reverence and ambition | 11 |
Neoclassicism comic and satiric verse | 17 |
Early narrative and lyric | 41 |
Transcendentalism | 87 |
JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER | 137 |
the claims of thetoric | 147 |
Modest claims | 155 |
Claiming the Bible | 200 |
Poetic languages | 248 |
Plural identities | 324 |
Walt Whitman the office of the poet | 362 |
Emily Dickinson the violence of the imagination | 427 |
Chronology 18001910 | 481 |
Bibliography | 534 |
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