The Cambridge history of American poetry

Introduction / Alfred Bendixen and Stephen Burt

Part I. Beginnings: Poetry before 1800. Remembering Muskrat: native poetics and the American Indian oral tradition / Betty Booth Donohue

Rhyming empires: early American poetry in languages other than English / Susan Castillo Street

The world, the flesh, and God in Puritan poetry / Robert Daly

Confronting death: the New England Puritan elegy / Jeffrey A. Hammond

The emergence of a Southern tradition / Jim Egan

Poetry in the time of revolution / Kevin J. Hayes

Part II. A New Nation: Poetry, 1800-1900. Asserting a national voice / Frank Gado

The emergence of romantic traditions / Alfred Bendixen

Linen shreds and melons in a field: Emerson and his contemporaries / Christoph Irmscher

Edgar Allan Poe's lost worlds / Eliza Richards

Longfellow in his time / Virginia Jackson

Whittier, Holmes, Lowell, and the New England tradition / Michael C. Cohen

Other voices, other verses: cultures of American poetry at midcentury / Mary Loeffelholz

American poetry fights the Civil War / Faith Barrett

Walt Whitman's invention of a democratic poetry / Ed Folsom

Emily Dickinson: the poetics and practice of autonomy / Wendy Martin

The South in Reconstruction: white and black voices / John D. Kerkering

The 'genteel tradition' and its discontents / Elizabeth Renker

Disciplined play: American children's poetry to 1920 / Angela Sorby

Dialect, doggerel, and local color: comic traditions and the rise of realism in popular poetry / David E.E. Sloane

Political poets and naturalism / Tyler Hoffman

Part III. Forms of Modernism, 1900-1950. The twentieth century begins / John Timberman Newcomb

Robert Frost and tradition / Siobhan Phillips

T.S. Eliot / Charles Altieri

William Carlos Williams: the shock of the familiar / Bob Perelman

Finding 'only words' mysterious: reading Mina Loy (and H.D.) in America / Cristanne Miller

Marianne Moore and the printed page / Robin G. Schulze

The formalist modernism of Edna St Vincent Millay, Helene Johnson, and Louise Bogan / Lesley Wheeler

The romantic and anti-romantic in the poetry of Wallace Stevens / George Lensing

Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, and the East coast projectivists / Matthew Hofer

Langston Hughes and his world / David Chioni Moore

The objectivists and the left / Mark Scroggins

'All the blessings of this consuming chance': Robert Lowell, John Berryman, Theodore Roethke, and the middle generation poets / David Wojahn

Elizabeth Bishop, Randall Jarrell, and the lost world of real feeling / Richard Flynn

Writing the South / Ernest Suarez

Part IV. Beyond Modernism: American Poetry, 1950-2000. San Francisco and the Beats / Stephen Fredman

The New York school / Brian Reed

The uses of authenticity: four sixties poets / Nick Halpern

James Merrill and his circles / David Bergman

Science in contemporary American poetry: Ammons and others / Roger Gilbert

The 1970s and the 'poetry of the center' / Edward Brunner

Latino poetry and poetics / Rigoberto González

Psychoanalytic poetics / Reena Sastri

Asian American poetry / Joseph Jonghyun Jeon

American poetry of the 1980s: the pressures of reality / Lisa M. Steinman

Black and blues configurations: contemporary African American poetry / Walton Muyumba

Amy Clampitt, 'culture' poetry, and the neo-baroque / Willard Spiegelman

Modern and contemporary children's poetry / Joseph T. Thomas, Jr.

Multilingualism in contemporary American poetry / Juliana Spahr

American poetry at the end of the millennium / Stephen Burt.