Selected Bibliography: Books

Baker Dorothy Z. ed. Poetics in the Poem: Critical Essays on American Self-Reflexive Poetry. NY: Peter Lang, 1997.

Blasing, Mutlu K. American Poetry: The Rhetoric of Its Forms. New Haven: Yale UP, 1987.

Bly, Robert. American Poetry: Wildness and Domesticity. NY: Harper & Row, 1990. PS323.5 .B63

Bogan, Louise. Achievement in American Poetry. Chicago: Gateway Editions, 1951. PS324 .B56

Brown, Fahamisha P. Performing the Word: African American Poetry as Vernacular Culture. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers UP, 1999.

Cambon, Glauco. The Inclusive Flame: Studies in Modern American Poetry. Bloomington: Indiana U P, 1965. PS305 .C313

Cushman, Stephen. Fictions of Form in American Poetry. Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP, 1993.

Daniels, Jim. ed. Letters to America: Contemporary American Poetry on Race. Detroit: Wayne State UP, 1995.

Duke, Charles R. and Sall A. Jacobsen. eds. Poets' Perspectives: Reading, Writing, and Teaching Poetry. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook, 1992.

Edelberg, Cynthia D. ed. Scars: American Poetry in the Face of Violence. Tuscaloosa: U of Alabama P, 1995.

Erkkila, Betsy, and Jay Grossman. eds. Breaking Bounds: Whitman and American Cultural Studies. NY: Oxford UP, 1996.

Evers, Larry, and Felipe S. Molina. Yaqui Deer Songs, Maso Bwikam: A Native American Poetry. Tucson: Sun Tracks with U of Arizona P, 1987.

Foster, Jeanne. A Music of Grace: The Sacred in Contemporary American Poetry. NY: Peter Lang, 1995.

| Top | Fredman, Stephen. The Grounding of American Poetry: Charles Olson and the Emersonian Tradition. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1993.

French, William P. Afro-American Poetry, 1760-1975. Detroit: Gale, 1979. PS591.N4 B58

Golding, Alan. From Outlaw to Classic: Canons in American Poetry. Madison: U of Wisconsin P, 1996.

Gregory, Elizabeth. Quotation and Modern American Poetry: "'Imaginary Gardens with Real Toads." Houston: Rice UP, 1996.

Halpern, Daniel, ed. The American Poetry Anthology. NY: Avon,1975. PS615 A4

Hollander, John. ed. American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century, I: Philip Freneau to Walt Whitman. NY: Library of America, 1993.

- - -. American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century, II: Herman Melville to Trumbull Stickney; American Indian Poetry; Folk Songs and Spirituals. NY: Library of America, 1993.

Kramer, Aaron. The Prophetic Tradition in American Poetry, 1835-1900. Rutherford: Fairleigh Dickinson U P, 1968. PS201 K7

Lee, A. Robert. ed. Nineteenth-Century American Poetry. Totowa, NJ: Barnes & Noble, 1985.

Leo, John R. and James Ruppert. Guide to American Poetry Explication. Boston, Mass.: G.K. Hall, 1989. Ref. PS201 .G85x

| Top | Martin, Robert K. The Homosexual Tradition in American Poetry. Austin: U of Texas P, 1979. PS310.H66 M3

Meserole, Harrison T., ed. Seventeenth-Century American Poetry. NY. NY U P, 1968. PS601M4

Morris, Timothy. Becoming Canonical in American Poetry. Urbana: U of Illinois P, 1995.

Mulford Carla. ed. Teaching the Literatures of Early America. NY: Modern Language Association of America, 1999.

Myers, Jack, and David Wojahn. eds. A Profile of Twentieth-Century American Poetry. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1991.

Nelson, Cary. Repression and Recovery: Modern American Poetry and the Politics of Cultural Memory, 1910-1945. Madison: U of Wisconsin P, 1989.

New, Elisa. The Regenerate Lyric: Theology and Innovation in American Poetry. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1993.

Oser, Lee. T.S. Eliot and American Poetry. Columbia: U of Missouri P, 1998.

Parini, Jay, and Brett C. Millier. eds. The Columbia History of American Poetry. NY: Columbia UP, 1993.

Pearce, Roy Harvey. The Continuity of American Poetry. Princeton: Princeton U P, 1961. PS303 .P4

Redmond, Eugene. Drumvoices: The Mission of Afro-American Poetry: A Critical History. Garden City: Anchor P, 1976. PS310 N4 R4

Revell, Peter. Quest in Modern American Poetry. London: Vision P, 1981. PS324 .R4

Rothenberg, Jerome. Revolution of the Word: A New Gathering of American Avant Garde Poetry, 1914-1945. NY, Seabury P, 1974. PS615 .R67

| Top | Scheick, William J. and JoElla Doggett. Seventeenth-Century American Poetry: A Reference Guide. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1977. Z1227 S3

Selinger, Eric M. What Is It Then between Us? Traditions of Love in American Poetry. Ithaca, NY: Cornell UP, 1998.

Shucard, Alan. American Poetry: The Puritans through Walt Whitman. Amherst: U of Massachusetts P, 1990. PS303 .S58

Shucard, Alan, William J. Sullivan, and Fred S. Moramarco. Modern American Poetry, 1865-1950. Boston: Twayne, 1989. PS323 S5

Silverman, Kenneth, ed. Colonial American Poetry. NY: Hafner Pub. Co., 1968. PS601 S5

Smethurst, James E. The New Red Negro: The Literary Left and African American Poetry, 1930-1946. NY: Oxford UP, 1999.

Stauffer, Donald B. A Short History of American Poetry. NY: Dutton, 1974. PS303 S67

Stetson, Erlene. Black Sister: Poetry by Black American Women, 1746-1980. Bloomington: Indiana U P,1981. PS591.N4 B525

Turco, Lewis P. Visions and Revisions of American Poetry. Fayetteville: U of Arkansas P, 1986.

Waggoner, Hyatt H. American Visionary Poetry. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State U P,1982. PS310 .V57 W33

White, Peter, ed. Puritan Poets and Poetics: Seventeenth-Century American Poetry in Theory and Practice. U Park: Pennsylvania State U P, 1985. PS153 .P87

Williams, Miller. Patterns of Poetry. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 1986. PN1042 .W514

Zillman, Lawrence J. The Art and Craft of Poetry. NY: Macmillan, 1966. PN1042 Z49

| Top | Selected Bibliography: Articles

Abbott, Craig S. "Modern American Poetry: Anthologies, Classrooms, and Canons." College Literature 17.2-3 (1990): 209-222.

Allen, Gilbert. "When Paraphrase Fails: The Interpretation of Modern American Poetry." College English 43.4 (Apr 1981): 363-370.

Arakelian, Paul G. "Personality and Style: Options in Nineteenth-Century American Poetry." Language and Style 24.2 (Sprg 1991): 239-50.

Blount, Marcellus. "The Preacherly Text: African American Poetry and Vernacular Performance." PMLA 107.3 (May 1992): 582-93.

Bruce, Dickson D., Jr. "The South in Afro-American Poetry, 1877-1915." College Language Association Journal 31.1 (Sep 1987): 12-30.

Bruchac, Joseph. "Many Tongues: Native American Poetry Today." North Dakota Quarterly (Fall 1987): 55:4, 239-44.

Buelens, Gert. "The American Poet and His City: Crane, Williams and Olson. Perceptions of Reality in American Poetry (1930-1960)." English Studies 73.3 (Jun 1992): 248-263.

Bush, Sargent, Jr. "American Poetry Begins: The Confident Modesty of The Tenth Muse." Wisconsin Academy Review 38.1 (Wint 1991-1992): 8-12.

Carney-Dalton, Pat. "Reflecting on American History Through Poetry." Social Education 58.4 (Apr 1994): 238.

Chang, Juliana. "Reading Asian American Poetry." MELUS 21.1 (Sprg 1996): 81-98.

Cox, F. Brett. "`What Need, Then, for Poetry? The Genteel Tradition and the Continuity of American Literature." The New England Quarterly 67.2 (Jun 1994): 212.

Egan, Ken, Jr. "The Machine in the Poem: Nineteenth-Century American Poetry and Technology." Weber Studies 12.1 (Wint 1995): 70-81.

Gilbert, Roger. "Some Parts of a World: Example as Trope in American Poetry." Western Humanities Review 48.2 (Sumr 1994): 144-65.

Harrington, Joseph. "Why American Poetry Is Not American Literature." American Literary History 8.3 (Fall 1996): 496-515.

Lim, Shirley. "Reconstructing Asian-American Poetry: A Case for Ethnopoetics." MELUS 14.2 (Sumr 1987): 51-63.

| Top | Pinsky, Robert. "American Poetry and American Life: Freneau, Whitman, Williams." Shenandoah 37.1 (1987): 3-26.

- - -. "American Poetry and American Life." Shenandoah 37.3 (1987): 81-99.

Rampersad, Arnold. "The Universal and the Particular in Afro-American Poetry." College Language Association Journal 25.1 (Sep 1981): 1-17.

Seelye, John. "Flashing Eyes and Floating Hair: The Visionary Mode in Early American Poetry." Virginia Quarterly Review 65.2 (Sprg 1989): 189-214.

Southard, Sherry. "Whitman and Language: Great Beginnings for Great American Poetry." Mount Olive Review 4 (Sprg 1990): 45-54.

Spoo, Robert E. "The Making of Modern American Poetry: Four Aspects." Princeton University Library Chronicle 55.3 (Sprg 1994): 364-86.

Strand, Mark. "Views of the Mysterious Hill: The Appearance of Parnassus in American Poetry." Gettysburg Review 4.4 (Autm 1991): 669-79.

Tanner, James T. "Humor in American Poetry: A Selected Checklist of Recent Scholarship and Criticism." Studies in American Humor 6 (1988): 101-02.

Watson, George. "The Americanness of American Poetry." Virginia Quarterly Review 65.1 (Wint 1989): 81-93.

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