A History of American Literature

896 Index

plays, see drama

Plexus (Miller), 636

The Plot Against America

(Roth), 582

The Plum Pickers (Barrio),

751

Plus (McElroy), 717

Plymouth Plantation,

28–30, 33

Pocahontas, 20, 26, 421

Pocho (Villarreal), 750–751

Podhoretz, Norman, 611

Poe, Edgar Allan, 92, 105–109

influence, 621

on Longfellow, 203

Lowell on, 206

and Osgood, 200

“Poem About My Rights”

(Jordan), 648

“A Poem for Myself ”

(Knight), 648, 649

Poems on Several Occasions

(Evans), 53

“The Poet” (Emerson), 118

The Poet at the Breakfast Table

(Holmes), 205

poetry

Ashbery on, 620–621

Ciardi on, 542

Crane on, 394–395

cummings on, 391

Dugan on, 542

Duncan on, 605–606

Emerson on, 116–117, 118

Ferlinghetti on, 606–607

Franklin on, 54–55

Frost on, 350–351

Ginsberg on, 611, 612

Ignatow on, 542

language poets on, 720–727

magazines, 343, 360,

363, 380

Merrill on, 622–623

Moore on, 387

O’Hara on, 615–616

Olson on, 599–600

Poe on, 105–106

Pound on, 359–360,

367, 368

Puritans on, 35, 58

Rexroth on, 449–451

(Riding) Jackson on, 394

Rukeyser on, 393

Spicer on, 608

Stein on, 399

Stevens on, 381–382

Schwartz on, 542

Stafford on, 542

Whitman on, 210–212

Wilbur on, 534

Williams on, 376

Zukofsky on, 363

poetry: 17th and 18th

centuries

18th century, 53–60

African-American, 54, 68,

75–77

colonial, 36–44

Revolutionary period,

75–80

poetry: 19th century

African-American,

144–145, 162

early and mid-, 105–107,

147–148, 150, 189–190,

199–214

late, 232–235, 239–240

Native American, 134–135

poetry: 20th century

African-American, 325,

479–480, 485–486,

488–495, 498–499

African-American protest,

641–651

Asian-American, 469,

764–765, 772–773, 777

beat poets, 610–615

Black Arts movement,

640–647

Black Mountain writers,

599–606

Chicano/a, 749–751, 755,

757–759

comic, 511

early, 271–272, 275–276,

325, 345–359

Fugitives, 431–433,

434–436, 437–441

Imagism, 359–370

language poetry, 720–727

Latino/a, 757–759, 760

Modernism, 359–397,

484–486, 494

Native American, 779–783,

785–786, 791, 793–794

naturalist, 275–276

New Formalists, 623–631

New York poets, 615–623

Objectivism, 363–365

performance, 641–642,

646–647, 650, 749–750,

757

populist, 446–448, 825

postmodernist, 720–727

post-9/11, 816–828

postwar, 532–568, 636

postwar immigrant,

744–745

radicals, 448–462, 461–462

realist, 272–273

San Francisco Renaissance,

606–610

traditionalist, 440–441

Vorticism, 359

“Poetry” (Moore), 387

Poetry: A Magazine of Verse,

343, 360, 363, 380, 446

Poganuc People (Stowe), 176

Poictesme novels (Cabell), 340

“A Point at Issue”

(Chopin), 244

Pokagon, Simon, 472

Poland: literary treatments,

740

Polaroid (Coolidge), 720

The Political Economy of

Slavery (Ruffin), 150

“A Political Litany”

(Freneau), 77

politics

20th-century growth in

literature to promote

causes, 524–525

20th-century radicals and

populists, 446–462

African-American,

479–480, 488, 500, 503

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