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

Steven Gould Axelrod, Camille Roman, Thomas Travisano

Rutgers University Press, 2003 - Literary Collections - 736 pages

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.

Contents

• AND LYRIC POETRY Pre14921800 The Tree of the Great Peace iroquois 6: 6
• GASPAR PEREZ DE VILLAGRA 15551620: 32
• MICHAEL WIGGLESWORTH 16311705: 67
• EDWARD TAYLOR ca 16421729: 75
• LUCY TERRY ca 17301821: 93
• PHILIP FRENEAU 17521832: 95
• PHILLIS WHEATLEY ca 17531784 On Being Brought from Africa to America: 106
• To S M a Young African Painter on Seeing His Works: 113
• SONGS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION AND NEW NATION: 121
• Introduction: 139
• NATIVEAMERICAN SONGS RITUAL POETRY: 147
• Sleep wintu: 156
• LYDIA HOWARD HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY 17911865: 159
• GEORGE MOSES HORTON ca 17971883: 173
• The Poet: 202
• ELIZABETH OAKES SMITH 18061893: 220
• JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER 18071892: 259
• EDGAR ALLAN POE 18091849: 294
• OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES 18091894: 329
• ABRAHAM LINCOLN 18091865: 341
• FRANCES SARGENT LOCKE OSGOOD 18111850: 350
• ADA SARAH LOUISA FORTEN ca 18141898 The Slave Girls Farewell: 356
• JULIA WARD HOWE 18191910: 363
• JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL 18191891: 376
• WALT WHITMAN 18191892: 380
• 75: 411
• 104: 422
• ALICE CARY 18201871: 469
• FREDERICK GODDARD TUCKERMAN 18211873: 471
• PHOEBE CARY 18241871: 477
• MARIA WHITE LOWELL 18271853: 497
• ROSE TERRY COOKE 18271892: 504
• JOHN ROLLIN RIDGE 18271867 The Stolen White Girl 517: 517
• Jinshan Fu XingSong of the Wife of a Gold Mountain Man: 524
• Introduction: 535
• DEWITT CLINTON DUNCAN TOOQUASTEE 18291909: 542
• EMILY DICKINSON 18301886: 548
• taste a liquor never brewed: 555
• The soul has bandaged moments: 561
• was the slightest in the house: 567
• Volcanoes be in Sicily: 580
• ADAH ISAACS MENKEN ca 18351868: 589
• B PIATT 18361919 Giving Back the Flower: 597
• We Two: 603
• INA COOLBRITH 18411928: 610
• SIDNEY LANIER 18421881 The Marshes of Glynn: 618
• City Visions: 627
• SARAH ORNE JEWETT 18491909: 631
• EDWIN MARKHAM 18521940 The Man with the Hoe 647: 647
• MARY MCNEIL FENOLLOSA 18651954: 663
• EDGAR LEE MASTERS 18681950: 676
• WILLIAM VAUGHN MOODY 18691910: 685
• EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON 18691935: 693
• JAMES WELDON JOHNSON 18711938 O Black and Unknown Bards: 713
• Dawn: 723
• 469: 731
• 329: 732
• 221: 733
• 147: 734

Bibliographic information

• Title: The New Anthology of American Poetry: Traditions and Revolutions, Beginnings to 1900; Volume 1 of The New Anthology of American Poetry, Steven Gould Axelrod
• Editors: Steven Gould Axelrod, Camille Roman, Thomas Travisano
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press, 2003
• ISBN: 0813531624, 9780813531625
• Length: 736 pages
• Subjects: Literary Collections / American / General; Literary Collections / General; Literary Criticism / American / General; Literary Criticism / Comparative Literature; Literary Criticism / General; Literary Criticism / Poetry; Poetry / American / General; Poetry / Anthologies (multiple authors); Poetry / General