Introduction
Anne Bradstreet and Edward Taylor
Early African American Poetry
The Epic in the Nineteenth Century
Longfellow in the Aftermath of Modernism
The American Transcendentalist Poets
Emily Dickinson
Walt Whitman﹀s Revisionary Democracy
Edgar Allan Poe
Lowell, Teasdale, Wylie, Millay, and Bogan
Women Poets and the Emergence of Modernism
Robert Frost and the Poetry of Survival
Ezra Pound﹀s Imagist Aesthetics: Lustra to Mauberley
T.S. Eliot
Marianne Moore and Elizabeth Bishop
Wallace Stevens
William Carlos Williams
Hart Crane﹀s Difficult Passage
The Poetry of the Harlem Renaissance
Warren, with Ransom and Tate
American Auden
The Twentiety-Century Long Poem
Public Music
Beat Poetry and the San Francisco Poetry Renaissance
John Berryman, Theodore Roethke, and the Elegy
What Was Confessional Poetry?
The Postconfessinal Lyric
The Black Arts Poets
Nature﹀s Refrain in American Poetry
Native American Poetry
James Merrill and John Ashbery
The Visionary Poetics of Philip Levine and Charles Wright
Contributors
Index
