Nineteenth Century American Poetry: An Annotated Bibliography

by Philip K. Jason

This list of prominent poets in this volume reminds us that for most of the nineteenth century, American literature was the literature of New England. Poe and Lanier represent the South; Whitman, Crane, and Melville New York. Bryant, Emerson, Thoreau, Holmes, Whittier, Lowell, Longfellow, and Dickinson were citizens of New England (as were the lesser known Tuckerman and Very). Dunbar is the lone midwesterner. As a group, they were highly conscious...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810828146
• ISBN13: 9780810828148
• Release Date: June 1989
• Publisher: Scarecrow Press
• Length: 257 Pages
• Weight: 1.29 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.2"