A Companion to American Poetry

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MARY MCALEER BALKUN, JEFFREY GRAY, AND PAUL JAUSSEN

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Balkun, Mary McAleer, editor. | Gray, Jeffrey, 1944- editor. | Jaussen, Paul, author. Title: A companion to American poetry / edited by Mary McAleer Balkun, Jeffrey Gray, and Paul Jaussen. Description: Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, 2022. | Series: Blackwell companions to literature and culture | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2021053028 (print) | LCCN 2021053029 (ebook) | ISBN 9781119669685 (hardback) | ISBN 9781119669722 (paperback) | ISBN 9781119669746 (pdf) | ISBN 9781119669227 (epub) | ISBN 9781119669760 (ebook) Subjects: LCSH: American poetry--History and criticism. | LCGFT: Literary criticism. | Essays. Classification: LCC PS305 .C66 2022 (print) | LCC PS305 (ebook) | DDC 811.009--dc23/eng/20211220 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021053028LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021053029

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2 Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture

3 Title page

4 Copyright

5 Dedication

6 1 Introduction

7 Section 1: Poetry before “American Poetry” 2 Worldmaking and Ambition in History Poems by Early American Women: The Examples of Anne Bradstreet and Sarah Wentworth Morton 3 Before Poetry: Revival Verse and Sermonic Address in Eighteenth-Century America 4 The Inca in the Nineteenth-Century US Poetic Imaginary 5 African American Spirituals and Their Legacy