Twentieth-Century American Poetry.

Twentieth-Century American Poetry -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- How To Use This Book -- Chronology: Significant Dates and Events, 1900-2000 -- Introduction -- 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 Glück (b. 1943) -- Jorie Graham (b. 1951) -- Gary Soto (b. 1952) -- Rita Dove (b. 1952) -- Texts.

Robert Frost, North of Boston (1914) -- Ezra Pound, ed., Des Imagistes: An Anthology (1914) -- Edwin Arlington Robinson, The Man Against the Sky: A Book of Poems (1916) -- T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land (1922) -- Claude McKay, Harlem Shadows (1922) -- Wallace Stevens, Harmonium (1923) -- William Carlos Williams, Spring and All (1923) -- Marianne Moore, Observations (1924) -- Hart Crane, The Bridge (1930) -- Elizabeth Bishop, North &amp -- South (1946) -- Ezra Pound, The Pisan Cantos (1948) -- Theodore Roethke, The Lost Son and Other Poems (1948) -- Allen Ginsberg, Howl and Other Poems (1956) -- Robert Lowell, Life Studies (1959) -- Donald Allen, ed., The New American Poetry (1960) -- Sylvia Plath, Ariel (1965) -- John Berryman, The Dream Songs (1969) -- Amiri Baraka, Black Magic: Sabotage, Target Study, Black Art -- Collected Poetry 1961-1967 (1969) -- Galway Kinnell, The Book of Nightmares (1971) -- Anne Sexton, Transformations (1971) -- John Ashbery, Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror (1975) -- Adrienne Rich, The Dream of a Common Language: Poems 1974-1977 (1978) -- Carolyn Forché, The Country Between Us (1981) -- James Merrill, The Changing Light at Sandover (1982) -- Rita Dove, Thomas and Beulah (1986) -- 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 -- Guide to Further Reading -- Index.

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