The New Anthology of American Poetry: Traditions and Revolutions, Beginnings to 1900 / Edition 1

by Steven Gould Axelrod, Camille Roman, Thomas Travisano

Overview

2003 Choice Outstanding Academic Title

Volume I begins with a generous selection of Native American materials, then spans the years from the establishment of the American colonies to about 1900, a world on the brink of World War I and the modern era. Part One focuses on poetry from the very beginnings through the end of the eighteenth century. The expansion and development of a newly forged nation engendered new kinds of poetry. Part Two includes works from the early nineteenth century through the time of the Civil War. The poems in Part Three reflect the many issues affecting a nation undergoing tumultuous change: the Civil War, immigration, urbanization, industrialization, and cultural diversification.

Such well-recognized names as Anne Bradstreet, Edward Taylor, Phillis Wheatley, Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, and Stephen Crane appear in this anthology alongside such less frequently anthologized poets as George Horton, Sarah Helen Whitman, Elizabeth Oakes-Smith, Frances Harper, Rose Terry Cooke, Helen Hunt Jackson, Adah Menken, Sarah Piatt, Ina Coolbrith, Emma Lazarus, Albery Whitman, Owl Woman (Juana Manwell) Sadakichi Hartmann, Ernest Fenollosa, James Weldon Johnson, Paul Laurence Dunbar, and—virtually unknown as a poet—Abraham Lincoln. It also includes poems and songs reflecting the experiences of a variety of racial and ethnic groups.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780813531625
Publisher:	Rutgers University Press
Publication date:	12/16/2002
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	768
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.90(d)

About the Author

STEVEN GOULD AXELROD is Distinguished Professor of English at the University of California, Riverside. He is the author of Robert Lowell: Life and Art and Sylvia Plath: The Wound and the Cure of Words.

CAMILLE ROMAN is Visiting Scholar at Brown University and Emeritus Professor of English at Washington State University. She is the author of Elizabeth Bishop's World War II-Cold War View.

THOMAS TRAVISANO is a professor of English at Hartwick College. He is the author of Elizabeth Bishop: Her Artistic Development and the principal editor of Words in Air: The Complete Correspondence Between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell.

Table of Contents

*DOES NOT INCLUDE POEM TITLES*

Preface
Acknowledgements

PART ONE: PRE-COLUMBIAN PERIOD TO 1800
   Introduction
NATIVE-AMERICAN SONGS, RITUAL POETRY, AND LYRIC POETRY (Pre 1492-1800)
GASPAR PÉREZ DE VILLAGRÁ (1555-1620)
ANNE BRADSTREET (ca. 1612-1672)
MICHAEL WIGGLESWORTH (1631-1705)
EDWARD TAYLOR (ca. 1631-1705)
LUCY TERRY (ca. 1730-1821)
PHILIP FRENEAU (1752-1832)
PHILLIS WHEATLEY (ca. 1753-1784)
JOEL BARLOW (1754-1812)
SONGS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION AND NEW NATION

PART TWO: EARLY TO MID-NINETEENTH CENTURY
   Introduction
AFRICAN AMERICAN SLAVE SONGS (1800-1863)
NATIVE-AMERICAN SONGS, RITUAL POETRY, AND LYRIC POETRY (1800-1900)
LYDIA HOWARD HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY (1791-1865)
WILLIAN CULLEN BRYANT (1794-1878)
GEORGE MOSES HORTON (ca. 1797-1883)
JANE JOHNSTON SCHOOLCRAFT [BAME-WA-WA-GE-ZHIK-A-QUAY, WOMAN OF THE STARS RUSHING THROUGH THE SKY] (1800-1841)
SARAH HELEN WHITMAN (1803-1878)
RALPH WALDO EMERSON (1803-1882)
ELIZABETH OAKES SMITH (1806-1893)
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW (1807-1882)
JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER (1807-1892)
EDGAR ALLEN P0E (1809-1849)
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES (1809-1894)
ABRAHAM LINCOLN (1809-1865)
MARGARET FULLER (1810-1850)
FRANCES SARGENT LOCKE OSGOOD (1811-1850)
ADA [SARAH LOUISA FORTEN] (ca. 1814-1898)
HENRY DAVID THROEAU (1817-1862)
JULIA WARD HOWE (1819-1910)
HERMAN MELVILLE (1819-1891)
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL (1819-1891)
WALT WHITMAN (1819-1892)
ALICE CARY (1820-1871)
FREDERICK GODDARD TUCKERMAN (1821-1873)
PHOEBE CARY (1824-1871)
FRANCES ELLEN WATKINS HARPER (1825-1911)
MARIA WHITE LOWELL (1827-1853)
ROSE TERRY COOKE (1827-1892)
JOHN ROLLIN RIDGE (1827-1867)
HENRY TIMROD (1828-1867)
HAWAI'IAN PLANTATION WORK SONGS (1825-1930)
JINSHAN GE/SONGS OF GOLD MOUNTAIN (1838-1920)
POPULAR EUROPEAN-AMERICAN SONGS

PART THREE: LATER NINETEENTH CENTURY
   Introduction
CORRIDOS (1860s-1930s)
ZARAGOZA CLUBS (1860s)
DEWITT CLINTON DUNCAN [TOO-QUA-STEE] (1829-1909)
HELEN HUNT JACKSON (1830-1885)
EMILY DICKINSON (1830-1886)
ADAH ISSACS MENKEN (ca. 1835-1868)
sARAH M. B. PIATT (1836-1919)
LYDIA KAMAKAEHA [QUEEN LILI'UOKALANI] (1838-1917)
INA COOLBRITH (1841-1928)
SIDNEY LANIER (1842-1881)
EMMA LAZARUS (1849-1887)
SARAH ORNE JEWETT (1849-1909)
ALBERY ALLSON WHITMAN (1851-1901)
EDWIN MARKHAM (1852-1940)
JOSÉ MARTÍ (1853-1895)
ERNEST FRANCISCO FENOLLOSA (1853-1908)
LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY (1861-1920)
MARY MCNEIL FENOLLOSA (1865-1954)
OWL WOMAN [JUANA MANWELL] (1867-1957)
SADAKICHI HARTMANN (1867-1944)
EDGAR LEE MASTERS (1868-1950)
W.E.B. DU BOIS (1868-1963)
WILLIAM VAUGHN MOODY (1869-1910)
EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON (1869-1935)
STEPHEN CRANE (1871-1900)
JAMES WELDON JOHNSON (1871-1938)
PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR (1872-1906)

About the Editors
Index

Editorial Reviews

"By embracing the guiding principle of 'traditions and revolutions,' the editors of this marvelous anthology have produced a rich, exciting text that surprises, engages, and challenges readers like no other such book has done. Its thoughtful inclusiveness, lucid introductions, and helpful notes make it supremely teachable. This work establishes a new benchmark for poetry anthologies."

editor, The Columbia Literary History of the United States - Emory Elliott

"It belongs on the shelf of every library and of every individual who understand that the voices of the poets set the moral tone of the US."

Choice

"It belongs on the shelf of every library and of every individual who understand that the voices of the poets set the moral tone of the US."

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