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  • Volume 4: Nineteenth-Century Poetry 1800–1910
  • Edited by Sacvan Bercovitch, Harvard University, Massachusetts
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
March 2008
Print publication year:
2004
Online ISBN:
9781139054041
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CHOL9780521301084
Subjects:
Literature, Area Studies, American Literature, American Studies
Series:
The Cambridge History of American Literature
Collection:
Cambridge Histories - Literature
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Book description

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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