A History of American Poetry by Gray, Richard -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Series page Title page Copyright page Dedication page Preface and Acknowledgments 1 The American Poem

The United States … the Greatest Poem The Poem is You The Breaking of the New Wood Forging the Uncreated Conscience of the Nation

2 Beginnings

In My Beginning is My End The word and the Word: Colonial Poetry Towards the Secular: Colonial Poetry Writing Revolution: The Poetry of the Emergent Republic Across the Great Divide: Poetry of the South and the North To Sing the Nation: American Poetic Voices To Sing of Freedom: African American Voices Looking Before and After: Poetic Voices of Region and Nation

3 The Turn to the Modern

The Revolution is Accomplished The Significance of Imagism From Imagism to Objectivism or Dream From Imagism to the Redemption of History From Imagism to Contact and Community From Imagism to Discovery of the Imagination

4 In Search of a Past

The Precious, the Incommunicable Past The Significance of the Fugitives Traditionalism and the South Traditionalism Outside the South Traditionalism, Skepticism, and Tragedy Traditionalism, Quiet Desperation, and Belief Traditionalism, Inhumanism, and Prophecy

5 The Traditions of Whitman

Make this America for Us! Whitman and American Populism Whitman and American Radicalism Whitman, American Identity, and African American Poetry Whitman and American Individualism Whitman and American Experimentalism Whitman and American Mysticism

6 Formalists and Confessionals

7 Beats, Prophets, and Aesthetes

8 The Languages of American Poetry and the Language of Crisis

What is the Language of American Literature? The Actuality of Words: The Language Poets The Necessity of Audience: The New Formalists Remapping the Nation: Chicano/a and Latino/a Poetry Improvising America: Asian American Poetry New and Ancient Songs: The Return of the Native American Legends of the Fall: American Poetry and Crisis Works Cited Poems Cited

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