Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction
Chronology
Volume 1
African American Poetry
Ammons, A.R. (1926–2001)
Angelou, Maya (1928–2014)
Ashbery, John (1927– )
Asian American Poetry
Auden, W.H. (1907–1973)
Baraka, Amiri (1934–2014)
Barlow, Joel (1754–1812)
Bay Psalm Book (1640)
Beat Poetry
Benét, Stephen Vincent (1898–1943)
Bernstein, Charles (1950– )
Berryman, John (1914–1972)
Bidart, Frank (1939– )
Bishop, Elizabeth (1911–1979)
Black Arts Movement
Black Mountain School
Bleecker, Ann Eliza (1752–1783)
Bly, Robert (1926– )
Bradstreet, Anne (1612–1672)
Brooks, Gwendolyn (1917–2000)
Bryant, William Cullen (1794–1878)
Caribbean Poetry
Clifton, Lucille (1936–2010)
Collins, Billy (1941–)
Concrete Poetry
Confessional Poetry
Cooke, Ebenezer (ca. 1667–ca. 1732)
Crane, Hart (1899–1931)
Crane, Stephen (1871–1900)
Creeley, Robert (1926–2005)
Cullen, Countee (1903–1946)
cummings, e.e. (1894–1962)
Deep Image
Dickinson, Emily (1830–1886)
Dunbar, Paul Laurence (1872–1906)
Dwight, Timothy (1752–1817)
Ecopoetics
Elegy
Eliot, T.S. (1888–1965)
Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803–1882)
Forché, Carolyn (1950– )
Forten, Sarah Louisa (1812–1884)
Free Verse
Freneau, Philip (ca. 1752–1832)
Frost, Robert (1874–1963)
Ginsberg, Allen (1926–1997)
Graham, Jorie (1950– )
Griffits, Hannah (1727–1817)
Guiney, Louise Imogen (1861–1920)
Halleck, Fitz-Greene (1790–1867)
Hammon, Jupiter (1711–[between 1790 and 1806])
Harlem Renaissance
Harper, Frances Ellen Watkins (1825–1911)
H.D. (1886–1961)
Holmes, Oliver Wendell (1809–1894)
Horton, George Moses (ca. 1797–ca. 1883)
Howe, Julia Ward (1819–1910)
Hughes, Langston (1902–1967)
Hugo, Richard (1923–1982)
Imagism
Jarrell, Randall (1914–1965)
Jeffers, Robinson (1887–1962)
Johnson, James Weldon (1871–1938)
Jordan, June (1936–2002)
Juana Inés de la Cruz, Sor (1648/1651–1695)
Key, Francis Scott (1779–1843)
Kinnell, Galway (1927–2014)
Koch, Kenneth (1925–2002)
Kumin, Maxine (1925–2014)
Kunitz, Stanley (1905–2006)
Language Poetry
Lanier, Sidney (1842–1881)
Larcom, Lucy (1824–1893)
Latino Poetry in the United States
Lazarus, Emma (1849–1887)
Levertov, Denise (1923–1997)
Lewis, Richard (ca. 1699–1783)
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth (1807–1882)
Lowell, James Russell (1819–1891)
Lowell, Robert (1917–1977)
Lyric Poetry
Volume 2
Masters, Edgar Lee (1868–1950)
McKay, Claude (1889–1948)
Melville, Herman (1819–1891)
Merrill, James (1926–1995)
Merwin, W.S. (1927– )
Millay, Edna St. Vincent (1892–1950)
Modernism
Moore, Clement Clarke (1779–1863)
Moore, Marianne (1887–1972)
Morton, Sarah Wentworth (1759–1846)
Narrative Poetry
Nash, Ogden (1902–1971)
Native American Poetry
New Criticism
New Formalism
New York School
Objectivist Poetry
O'Hara, Frank (1926–1966)
Olds, Sharon (1942– )
Olson, Charles (1910–1970)
Parker, Dorothy (1893–1967)
Pastoral
Performance Poetry
Pinsky, Robert (1940– )
Plath, Sylvia (1932–1963)
Poe, Edgar Allan (1809–1849)
Postmodern Poetics
Pound, Ezra (1885–1972)
Projective Verse
Prose Poem
Prosody and Versification
Rexroth, Kenneth (1905–1982)
Rich, Adrienne (1929–2012)
Riley, James Whitcomb (1849–1916)
Robinson, Edwin Arlington (1869–1935)
Roethke, Theodore (1908–1963)
Sandburg, Carl (1876–1967)
San Francisco Renaissance
Schoolcraft, Jane Johnston (1800–1841)
Sexton, Anne (1928–1974)
Sigourney, Lydia Huntley (1791–1865)
Snyder, Gary (1930– )
Stein, Gertrude (1874–1946)
Stevens, Wallace (1879–1955)
Stockton, Annis Boudinot (1736–1801)
Strand, Mark (1934–2014)
Taylor, Edward (ca. 1642–1729)
Thayer, Ernest Lawrence (1863–1940)
Thoreau, Henry David (1817–1862)
Tompson, Benjamin (1642–1714)
Toomer, Jean (1894–1967)
Trethewey, Natasha (1966– )
Very, Jones (1813–1880)
Walcott, Derek (1930– )
Warren, Mercy Otis (1728–1814)
Wheatley, Phillis (ca. 1753–1784)
Whitman, Walt (1819–1892)
Whittier, John Greenleaf (1807–1892)
Wigglesworth, Michael (1631–1705)
Wilbur, Richard (1921– )
Wilcox, Ella Wheeler (1850–1919)
Williams, William Carlos (1883–1963)
Wright, James (1927–1980)
Wright, Susanna (1697–1784)
Zukofsky, Louis (1904–1978)
Selected Bibliography
About the Editors and Contributors
Index
