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<p>In the nineteenth century, Alexis de Tocqueville suggested that the poetry of the new American democratic state, free from the staggering weight of centuries of European aristocracy and tradition, would focus on "man alone... his passions, his doubts, his rare properties and inconceivable wretchedness."</p> <p>For hundreds of years, American poets have presented their various images of the land and its people. But what is "American poetry?" Is there truly such a thing as an American poetic tradition, spanning over nearly four centuries from colonial times to the turn of the millennium? In <i>The Columbia Anthology of American Poetry,</i> Jay Parini, a respected American poet and critic in his own right, offers an authoritative survey of the elusive category that is the poetry of the American people.</p> <p><i>The Columbia Anthology of American Poetry</i> covers all of the canonical American poets, from the colonial to the contemporary-Anne Bradstreet, Walt Whitman, T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, and Adrienne Rich are all included.</p> <p>But Parini has also selected a broad sampling of poetry from voices that have been heard as widely over the years. Here, for the first time, is a thor

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Author

Jay Parini

Publisher

New York: Columbia University Press

Published

1995

Language

EN

ISBN

9780231081221

Category

work of literary fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Poetry, Humanities

Rating

3.88 / 5 (25 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14