American Poetry

  • American Poetry: 1922, a Miscellany
    By Robert Frost, Carl Sandburg, Edna Millay

    American Poetry: 1922, A Miscellany is a collection of poetry by the famous authors and poets Robert Frost, Carl Sandburg, Edna St. Vincent Millay and more.

  • American Poetry: Wildness and Domesticity
    American Poetry: Wildness and Domesticity
    By Robert Bly

    Essays discuss issues in modern poetry, and look at the works of James Wright, David Ignatow, Denise Levertov, W.S. Merwin, Thomas McGrath, Robert Lowell, James Dickey, Galway Kinnell, and Donald Hall American Poetry brings together for the ...

  • American Poetry: a Very Short Introduction
    American Poetry: a Very Short Introduction
    By David Caplan

    A Very Short Introduction David Caplan. SEXUAL SELECTION Marlene Zuk and Leigh W. Simmons SEXUALITY Véronique Mottier WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Stanley Wells SHAKESPEARE'S COMEDIES Bart van Es SHAKESPEARE'S SONNETS AND POEMS Jonathan F. S. ...

  • American Poetry: A Very Short Introduction
    American Poetry: A Very Short Introduction
    By David Caplan

    1, 1902–1941, I, Too, Sing America (New York: Oxford University Press, 2002), 252. See also 242–75, which details ... Elizabeth Bishop, Poems (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011), 198, 122. Elizabeth Bishop, The Collected Prose, ...

  • American Poetry: The Modernist Ideal
    American Poetry: The Modernist Ideal
    By Clive Bloom, Brian Docherty

    Olson, Muthologos, vol. 1, pp. 49,59. Later in the book (II.90) Olson directs our attention to Obadiah Bruen's Island, where the Algonquins used to steep 'fly agaric in whortleberry juice, / to drink to see'.

  • American Poetry: Wildness and Domesticity
    American Poetry: Wildness and Domesticity
    By Robert Bly, Robert W. Bly

    Essays originally written over the past thirty years.

  • American Poetry: Whitman to the Present
    American Poetry: Whitman to the Present
    By Patrick Vincent, Robert Rehder

    The Pound Era . Berkeley and Los Angeles : University of California Press , 1973 . Laughlin , James . Pound as Wuz : Essays and Lectures on Ezra Pound . Saint Paul : Graywolf Press , 1987 . Leavis , Frank R. New Bearings in English ...

  • American Poetry
    American Poetry
    By John Hollander

    Provides more than twenty poems written by American poets, with brief introductory remarks.

  • American Poetry: The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (LOA #178)
    American Poetry: The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (LOA #178)
    By David Sheilds

    This groundbreaking Library of America volume offers a fresh look at early American poetry, charting its evolution over a span of almost two centuries, from the first years of English...

  • American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century
    By John Hollander

    Gathers over 600 poems, hymns, sonnets, and ballads by nineteenth-century American authors, including Edgar Allen Poe, Mark Twain, and Sarah Orne Jewett, and provides biographical profiles.

  • American Poetry: The Next Generation
    American Poetry: The Next Generation
    By Jim Daniels, Gerald Costanzo

    Gerald Costanzo's most recent books are Nobody Lives on Arthur Godfrey Boulevard and The Devins Award Poetry Anthology. He has taught in the English Department at Carnegie Mellon for thirty...