Greenwood Publishing Group : The Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Poets and Poetry [Five Volumes]

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-Public libraries looking for a comprehensive resource about contemporary English language poetry and American poetry specifically need look no further. —Reference Reviews

-This comprehensive, scholarly survey of American poetry covers nearly 400 years of verse....This excellent guide is the most important reference tool since the New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry & Poetics to focus on poetry, and the most substantial to ever survey American poetry. This title is highly recommended for high school, public and academic libraries. —Lawrence Looks at Books

-This encyclopedia provides a surprisingly complete collection of entries on American poetry and poets from the early colonial to the contemporary era....[i]t deserves a place in public, seminary and college libraries that have an interest in American poetry. —Christian Century

-Deeply read scholars with all kinds of specialties and general readers have, in these five volumes a feast of education that is pleasurable and rewarding. The range of conversational poets and their works is wide, but what is probably most surprising and rewarding is the inclusion of popular songs and their authors, and minstrelsy, its songs and other forms of poetry. This inclusion is certainly as it should be, for if one is going to chart the poetry of the American people one must surely include the voice poetry that nearly everyone exercises and loves. This, then, is a comprehensive charting of the routes of American poets and their works. Further, it is written in a style that is down-to-earth and pleasurable to read. The set is certainly a required reference set for every library and each individual who likes to reaffirm or get know the road of American poetry. —The Journal of American Culture

About the Author

Jeffrey Gray is Associate Professor of English at Seton Hall University and author of Mastery's End: Travel and Postwar American Poetry. His articles and poetry have appeared in such journals as Atlantic Monthly, Callaloo, Contemporary Literature, Profession, and Papers on Language and Literature.

James McCorkle is a poet and essayist. His previous books include The Still Performance (1989), Conversant Essays (1990), Evidences (2003). His work has appeared in such places as The Kenyon Review, The New England Review, and Ploughshares. He has taught at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Keuka College, New York University, and Pratt Institute.

Mary McAleer Balkun is Associate Professor of English at Seton Hall University. She has published in such journals as Walt Whitman Quarterly, Women's Studies, and African American Review, and is the author of the forthcoming The American Counterfeit: Authenticity and Identity in American Literature and Culture.

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