Thematic Guide to American Poetry

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Bloomsbury Academic, Sep 30, 2002 - Literary Criticism - 309 pages
Poetry : To a New England Poet (Philip Freneau) ; Merlin (Ralph Waldo Emerson) ; Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking (Walt Whitman) ; This was a Poet--It is That (Emily Dickinson) ; Oh for a poet--for a beacon bright (Edwin Arlington Robinson) ; Petit, the Poet (Edgar Lee Masters) ; A Pact (Ezra Pound) ; Poetry (Marianne More) ; Ars Poetica (Archibald MacLeish) ; The Wind Increases (William Carlos Williams) ; A Sort of a Song (William Carlos Williams) ; For My Contemporaries (J.V. Cunningham) ; American Poetry (Louis Simpson) ; Because You Asked about the Line between Poetry and Prose (Howard Nemerov) ; The Next Poem (Dana Gioia) -- The Self : Song of Myself (Walt Whitman) ; I dwell in Possibility (Emily Dickinson) ; Desert Places (Robert Frost) ; The Heavy Bear Who Goes with Me (Delmore Schwartz) ; Theme for English B (Langston Hughes) ; April Inventory (W.D. Snodgrass) ; Skunk Hour (Robert Lowell) ; In the Waiting Room (Elizabeth Bishop) -- Skepticism and Belief : On the Religion of Nature (Philip Freneau) ; On the Uniformity and Perfection of Nature (Philip Freneau) ; On the Universality and Other Attributes of the God of Nature (Philip Freneau) ; To a Waterfowl (William Cullen Bryant) ; The Problem (Ralph Waldo Emerson) ; The Chambered Nautilus (Oliver Wendell Holmes) ; Faith is a fine invention (Emily Dickinson) ; Some keep the Sabbath going to Church (Emily Dickinson) ; I know that He exists (Emily Dickinson) ; Sunday Morning (Wallace Stevens) ; Journey of the Magi (T.S. Eliot) ; Design (Robert Frost) ; Love Calls Us to the Things of This World (Richard Wilbur) ; In a Dark Time (Theodore Roethke) ; Boom! (Howard Nemerov) ; The Hereafter (Andrew Hudgins).

About the author (2002)

ALLAN BURNS is Assistant Professor of English at Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville. His interests include American Poetry and American nature writing. His articles and reviews have been published in American Literary Realism, American Literature, English Studies, The Henry James Review and Papers on Language and Literature.

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