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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.
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.