Twentieth-century American poetry

20th-century American poetry

Blackwell guides to literature

Blackwell guides to literature.

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 / Des Imagistes: An Anthology / The Man Against the Sky: A Book of Poems / The Waste Land / Harlem Shadows / Harmonium / Spring and All / Observations / The Bridge / North & South / The Pisan Cantos / The Lost Son and Other Poems / Howl and Other Poems / Life Studies / The New American Poetry / Ariel / The Dream Songs / Black Magic: Sabotage, Target Study, Black Art; Collected Poetry 1961-1967 / The Book of Nightmares / Transformations / Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror / The Dream of a Common Language: Poems 1974-1977 / The Country Between Us / The Changing Light at Sandover / Thomas and Beulah / 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.

Beleaguered poets and leftist critics : Stevens, Cummings, Frost, and Williams in the 1930s

The heel of Elohim, science and values in modern American poetry.

Modern American poetry; essays in criticism.

Modern American poetry, 1865-1950

Twayne's critical history of poetry series. American literature

Twayne's critical history of poetry series. American literature.

Modern American poetry: essays in criticism.

Poetry speaks : hear great poets read their work from Tennyson to Plath

Poetry speaks expanded : hear poets from Tennyson to Plath read their own work

Poetry speaks.

Ulysses /Robinson Jeffers (1887-1962) --Robinson Jeffers (1887-1962) -- Tithonus / Crossing the bar / My last Duchess -- Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister / Meeting at night / Crossing Brooklyn Ferry / Bivouac on a mountain side / Last invocation / Adam's curse / Second coming / Among school children / Sailing to Byzantium / Crazy Jane on the day of judgment / If I told him / To earthward / Come in / Chicago / Fog / Fabliau of Florida / Bantams in Pine-Woods / Thirteen ways of looking at a Blackbird / Idea of order at Key West / Chamber music II / Chamber music X / Chamber music XVIII / She weeps over Rahoon / Ecce Puer / Spring and all / To a poor old woman / Sort of a song / River-merchant's wife: a letter / In a station of the Metro / Garden / Orchard / Helen / Oread / Hurt Hawks / Purse-Seine / Carmel Point / Painted head / Equilibrists / Dead boy / Journey of the Magi / Burnt Norton from Four Quartets / First fig / Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink / News item / Pig's-eye view of literature / Lady's reward / In just / Love is a place / May I feel said he / Pity this busy monster / Ulysses / Return of the Goddess / Amergin's charm / With her lips only / Time of waiting

Medusa / Daemon -- Sleeping fury / Lambda / O vocables of love / Take hands / I, too / Good morning / Luck / Trouble with women is men / Portrait of the artist as a prematurely old man / Laments for a dying language / O where are you going? / Funeral blues / As I walked out one evening / Bagpipe music / British Museum Reading Room / Star-gazer /Louis MacNeice (1907-1963) -- Sloth / In a dark time / Map / Armadillo / One art / In the waiting room / Orbiter 5 shows how Earth looks from the moon / July 4th / Woods at night / Frederick Douglass / Homage to the Empress of the Blues / Words in the mourning time / From Letter to the front / Ballad of Orange and Grape / Passing remark / Saint Matthew and all / Report to Crazy Horse / 90 North / Next day / From the Dream Songs / "Sole Watchman" from Eleven Addresses to the Lord / And death shall have no dominion / In my craft or sullen art / Do not go gentle into that good night / For the Union dead / Epilogue / Boy died in my alley / Speech to the young / Structure of Rime I / Sentinels / 7th chorus from Orizaba 210 Blues / from Biographical Resume, Fall 1957 / 99th chorus from Mexico City Blues / 114th chorus from Mexico City Blues / Rimbaud / Whitsun Weddings / Wild oats / This be the verse / Come into animal presence / Talking to grief / Woman alone / America / Why I am not a painter / Poem (Hate is only one of many responses) / Day lady died / Her kind / For my lover, returning to his wife / Rumpelstiltskin / Howling of wolves / Crow's first lesson / Pink wool knitted dress / Hard Rock returns to prison from the Hospital for the Criminal Insane / Dark Prophecy: I sing of shine / Violent space / Tulips / Morning song / I am vertical

From "The bugle song" -- From The charge of the light brigade -- How they brought the good news from Ghent to Aix -- From America -- Yeats on "The Lake Isle of Innisfree" -- Lake Isle of Innisfree -- Coole Park and Ballylee, 1931 -- Christian Berard -- She bowed to her brother / Oven bird -- Road not taken -- Stopping by woods on a snowy evening -- Nothing gold can stay -- Silken tent -- Grass -- cool tombs -- 107 from The People, Yes -- So-and-so reclining on her couch -- Not ideas about the thing but the thing itself -- From Anna Livia Plurabelle from Finnegans Wake -- Queen-Anne's-Lace -- To Elsie -- Red wheelbarrow -- Cantico del sole -- Hugh Selwyn Mauberley -- XLV from the Cantos -- From Helen in Egypt -- Day is a poem (September 19, 1939) -- Oh, lovely rock -- Captain Carpenter -- Bells for John Whiteside's daughter -- Love song of J. Alfred Prufrock -- La Figlia Che Piange.

Recuerdo -- I shall forget you presently, my dear -- Childhood is the kingdom hwere nobody dies -- One perfect rose -- Resume -- Afternoon -- From anyone lived in a pretty how town -- As freedom is a breakfastfood -- Castle -- To Juan at the Winter solstice -- Blue-fly -- Dream -- Song for the last act -- Ex-judge at the bar -- Dark symphony -- Death as death -- Nothing so far -- Negro speaks of rivers -- Mother to Son -- Weary blues -- Harlem -- I do, I will, I have -- I must tell you about my novel -- In memory of W.B. Yeats -- Musee des Beaux Arts -- If I could tell you -- Conversation -- Meeting point -- My Papa's waltz -- Waking -- I knew a woman -- Fish -- From Crusoe in England -- Question -- Watch -- Those winter Sundays -- El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz (Malcolm X) -- Night feeding -- Poem as mask -- Waiting for Icarus.

Star in the hills -- Traveling through the dark -- Death of the Ball Turret Gunner -- Selle im Raum -- Ball poem -- 4 from the Dream Songs -- 22 from the Dream Songs -- Fern Hill -- Among those killed in the dawn raid was a man aged a hundred -- Skunk hour -- Home after three months away -- Song in the front yard -- Kitchenette building -- We real cool -- Poetry, a natural thing -- Often I am permitted ot return to a meadow -- MacDougal Street Blues: Canto Uno -- From Book of Haikus -- Places, loved ones -- Old fools -- Secret -- Her sadness -- From Howl -- Supermarket in California -- Ave Maria -- Poem (Lana Turner has collapsed!) -- Truth the dead know -- From the Operation -- Thought-fox -- February 17 -- Idea of ancestry -- Belly song -- Daddy -- Lady Lazarus.