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1 Philip Freneau's Summa of American Exceptionalism: "The Rising Glory of America"; 2 The Progress Poem in America, a Long View: Whitman's "A Passage to India," Hart Crane's The Bridge, and Beyond; 3 Repercussions of "The Bells": Poe, Emerson, and the Bifurcation of American Poetics (with a Postscript on Tuckerman); 4 "Speaking as an American to Americans": James Russell Lowell's "Harvard Commemoration Ode" and the Idea of Nationhood; 5 Confederate Poetics: Simms, Timrod, Lanier
6 Nineteenth-Century Poems by Women: Hannah Flagg Gould's "Ode on Art," Mary Ashe Lee's "Afmerica," and Harriet Monroe and the Great Columbian Exposition7 Questioning America: Moody's "Ode in Time of Hesitation"; 8 Between Two Wars (1): The Lost Causes of Allen Tate
"Ode to the Confederate Dead"; 9 Between Two Wars (2): "America Was Promises"
Archibald MacLeish and "The Irresponsibles"; 10 Between Two Wars (3): Odes for and against Silence
Millay, Taggard, Rukeyser; 11 The Rising Glory of Africa: Melvin Tolson's Libretto for the Republic of Liberia
12 "America, You Made Me Want to Be a Saint": Allen Ginsberg's "Howl"Notes; Bibliography; Index
6 Nineteenth-Century Poems by Women: Hannah Flagg Gould's "Ode on Art," Mary Ashe Lee's "Afmerica," and Harriet Monroe and the Great Columbian Exposition7 Questioning America: Moody's "Ode in Time of Hesitation"; 8 Between Two Wars (1): The Lost Causes of Allen Tate
"Ode to the Confederate Dead"; 9 Between Two Wars (2): "America Was Promises"
Archibald MacLeish and "The Irresponsibles"; 10 Between Two Wars (3): Odes for and against Silence
Millay, Taggard, Rukeyser; 11 The Rising Glory of Africa: Melvin Tolson's Libretto for the Republic of Liberia
12 "America, You Made Me Want to Be a Saint": Allen Ginsberg's "Howl"Notes; Bibliography; Index