Subtitle: Volume One: Traditions and Revolutions, Beginnings to 1900
Author: Edited by Steven Gould Axelrod, Camille Roman, and Thomas Travisano
Subject: Poetry/American Literature
Paper ISBN 0-8135-3162-4
Cloth ISBN 0-8135-3161-6
Pages: 688 pp.
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Description: The first of a three-volume series that will be the most comprehensive and innovative anthology of American poetry ever published.
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Praise for The New Anthology of American Poetry
"By embracing the guiding principle of traditions and revolutions, the editors of this marvelous anthology have produced a rich, exciting text that surprises, engages, and challenges readers like no other such book has done. Its thoughtful inclusiveness, lucid introductions, and helpful notes make it supremely teachable. This work establishes a new benchmark for poetry anthologies."Emory Elliott, editor, The Columbia Literary History of the United States
The New Anthology of American Poetry
- Demonstrates how a succession of canons of American poetry have evolved.
- Gives more attention to women poets and to artists from African American, Asian American, Latino, and Native American cultures than in any previous anthology.
- Offers concise introductions to periods and styles, brief bibliographies of key primary and secondary texts, and critical selections on the art of poetry by the poets themselves.
VOLUME ONE: Traditions and Revolutions, Beginnings to 1900
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. It also includes poems and songs reflecting the experiences of a variety of racial and ethnic groups.
Steven Gould Axelrod is a professor of English at the University of California Riverside. He is the author of Robert Lowell: Life and Art and Sylvia Plath: The Wound and the Cure of Words. Camille Roman is an associate professor of English and American studies at Washington State University. She is one of the editors of The Women and Language Debate: A Sourcebook (Rutgers University Press) and the author of Elizabeth Bishops World War IICold War View. Thomas Travisano is a professor of English at Hartwick College. He is the author of Elizabeth Bishop: Her Artistic Development and Midcentury Quartet: Bishop, Lowell, Jarrell, Berryman, and the Making of a Postmodern Aesthetic.
