Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Kerry Larson
  • Part I. Mandates, movements, and manifestos. 1. The reception of nineteenth-century American poetry / Mary Louise Kete
  • 2. American Indian poetry in the nineteenth century / Robert Dale Parker
  • 3. The poet as poetess / Virginia Jackson
  • 4. Transcendental poetics / Stephen Cushman
  • 5. Slavery and its metrics / Max Cavitch
  • 6. Weathering the news in US Civil War poetry / Eliza Richards
  • 7. The "twilight of the poets" in the era of American realism, 1875-1900 / Elizabeth Renker
  • Part II. Individual authors. 8. Longfellow's ambivalence / Stephen Burt
  • 9. Sarah Piatt's grammar of convention and the conditions of authorship / Jess Roberts
  • 10. Poe and Southern poetry / John D. Kerkering
  • 11. The color line : James Monroe Whitfield and Albery Allson Whitman / Ivy G. Wilson
  • 12. Colonial violence and poetic transcendence in Whitman's "Song of myself" / Donald Pease
  • 13. Emily Dickinson's "turban'd seas" / Cristanne Miller.