Twentieth-century American poetry

Chronology: Significant Dates and Events, 1900-2000

Some Historical and Cultural Contexts of Twentieth-Century American Poetry

The Romantic Legacy and the Genteel Tradition

Transatlantic Connections

Tradition and the Rise of the Universities

Rebellion in the Fifties and Sixties: The Two Anthologies

The Poetry of Change

A Rich Diversity

Writers

Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935)

Robert Frost (1874-1963)

Carl Sandburg (1878-1967)

Wallace Stevens (1879-1955)

William Carlos Williams (1883-1963)

Ezra Pound (1885-1972)

H. D. (Hilda Doolittle: 1886-1961)

Robinson Jeffers (1887-1962)

Marianne Moore (1887-1972)

T. S. Eliot (1888-1965)

John Crowe Ransom (1888-1974)

Claude McKay (1890-1948)

E. E. Cummings (1894-1962)

Hart Crane (1899-1932)

Langston Hughes (1902-1967)

Louis Zukofsky (1904-1978)

Robert Penn Warren (1905-1989)

George Oppen (1908-1984)

Theodore Roethke (1908-1963)

Charles Olson (1910-1970)

Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979)

John Berryman (1914-1972)

Robert Lowell (1917-1977)

Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000)

Robert Duncan (1919-1988)

Richard Wilbur (b. 1921)

Denise Levertov (1923-1997)

James Dickey (1923-1997)

A. R. Ammons (1926-2001)

Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997)

Robert Creeley (b. 1926)

Frank O'Hara (1926-1966)

James Merrill (1926-1995)

John Ashbery (b. 1927)

Galway Kinnell (b. 1927)

W. S. Merwin (b. 1927)

Anne Sexton (1928-1974)

Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)

Gary Snyder (b. 1930)

Sylvia Plath (1932-1963)

Amiri Baraka (b. 1934)

Sonia Sanchez (b. 1934)

Audre Lorde (1934-1992)

Susan Howe (b. 1937)

Louise Gluck (b. 1943)

Jorie Graham (b. 1951)

Gary Soto (b. 1952)

Rita Dove (b. 1952)

Texts

North of Boston / Robert Frost

Des Imagistes: An Anthology / Ezra Pound

The Man Against the Sky: A Book of Poems / Edwin Arlington Robinson

The Waste Land / T. S. Eliot

Harlem Shadows / Claude McKay

Harmonium / Wallace Stevens

Spring and All / William Carlos Williams

Observations / Marianne Moore

The Bridge / Hart Crane

North & South / Elizabeth Bishop

The Pisan Cantos / Ezra Pound

The Lost Son and Other Poems / Theodore Roethke

Howl and Other Poems / Allen Ginsberg

Life Studies / Robert Lowell

The New American Poetry / Donald Allen

Ariel / Sylvia Plath

The Dream Songs / John Berryman

Black Magic: Sabotage, Target Study, Black Art; Collected Poetry 1961-1967 / Amiri Baraka

The Book of Nightmares / Galway Kinnell

Transformations / Anne Sexton

Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror / John Ashbery

The Dream of a Common Language: Poems 1974-1977 / Adrienne Rich

The Country Between Us / Carolyn Forche

The Changing Light at Sandover / James Merrill

Thomas and Beulah / Rita Dove

Topics

Twentieth-Century American Poetry and Other Arts

Continuities and Nationality in Twentieth-Century American Poetry

American Poetry and a Century of Wars

The Twentieth-Century American Long Poem

Anthologies: Polemical and Historical.