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; Writers; Texts; Topics; Guide to Further Reading; Index;
CoverContents -- Acknowledgments -- How To Use This Book -- Chronology: Significant Dates and Events, 19008211;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 (18698211;1935) -- Robert Frost (18748211;1963) -- Carl Sandburg (18788211;1967) -- Wallace Stevens (18798211;1955) -- William Carlos Williams (18838211;1963) -- Ezra Pound (18858211;1972) -- H.D. (Hilda Doolittle; 18868211;1961) -- Robinson Jeffers (18878211;1962) -- Marianne Moore (18878211;1972) -- T.S. Eliot (18888211;1965) -- John Crowe Ransom (18888211;1974) -- Claude McKay (18908211;1948) -- E.E. Cummings (18948211;1962) -- Hart Crane (18998211;1932) -- Langston Hughes (19028211;1967) -- Louis Zukofsky (19048211;1978) -- Robert Penn Warren (19058211;1989) -- George Oppen (19088211;1984) -- Theodore Roethke (19088211;1963) -- Charles Olson (19108211;1970) -- Elizabeth Bishop (19118211;1979) -- John Berryman (19148211;1972) -- Robert Lowell (19178211;1977) -- Gwendolyn Brooks (19178211;2000) -- Robert Duncan (19198211;1988) -- Richard Wilbur (b. 1921) -- Denise Levertov (19238211;1997) -- James Dickey (19238211;1997) -- A.R. Ammons (19268211;2001) -- Allen Ginsberg (19268211;1997) -- Robert Creeley (b. 1926) -- Frank O8217;Hara (19268211;1966) -- James Merrill (19268211;1995) -- John Ashbery (b. 1927) -- Galway Kinnell (b. 1927) -- W.S. Merwin (b. 1927) -- Anne Sexton (19288211;1974) -- Adrienne Rich (b. 1929) -- Gary Snyder (b. 1930) -- Sylvia Plath (19328211;1963) -- Amiri Baraka (b. 1934) -- Sonia Sanchez (b. 1934) -- Audre Lorde (19348211;1992) -- Susan Howe (b. 1937) -- Louise Gl252;ck (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 & 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 19618211;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 19748211;1977 (1978) -- Carolyn Forch233;, The Country Between Us (1981) -- James Merrill, The Changing Light at Sandover (1982) -- Rita Dov.
