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American Poets

 

The Puritan Period

 

Anne Bradstreet
(1612 - 1672)
Edward Taylor
(1642 - 1729)

 

American Enlightenment

 

Philip Freneau
(1752 - 1832)

 

American Romanticism and Transcendentalism

 

Ralph Waldo Emerson
(1803 - 1882)
William Cullen Bryant
(1794 - 1898)
Edgar Allan Poe
(1809 - 1849)
Walt Whitman
(1819 - 1892)
Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
(1830 - 1886)
Herman Melville
(1819 - 1891)

 

Victorian Poets

 

Alfred Lord Tennyson
(1809 - 1892)
Robert Browning
(1812 - 1889)

 

Bridge to Modernism

 

E. A. Robinson
(1869 - 1935)
Stephen Crane
(1871 - 1900)

 

Modernism

 

Robert Frost
(1874 - 1946)
Ezra Pound
(1885 - 1972)
H. D. (Hilda Doolittle)
(1886 - 1967)
T. S. Eliot
(1888 - 1973)
William Carlos Williams
(1883 - 1963)
Wallace Stevens
(1879 - 1955)
Marianne Moore
(1887 - 1972)
E. E. Cummings
(1894 - 1962)
Langston Hughes
(1902 - 1967)
Hart Crane
(1899 - 1932)

 

Middle 20th Century

 

Theodore Roethke
(1908 - 1963)
Elizabeth Bishop
(1911 - 1988)
Randall Jarrell
(1914 - 1965)
John Berryman
(1914 - 1972)

Robert Lowell
(1917 - 1977)

 

Late 20th Century

 

Richard Wilbur
(1921 - )
Denise Levertov
(1923 - 1997)
James Merrill
(1926 - 1995)
Nancy Willard
(1936 - )
Jerome Rothenberg
(1931 - )
Adrienne Rich
(1929 -)

James Dickey
(1923-1997)

 

NEW YORK SCHOOL

 

Frank O'Hara
(1926 - 1966)
Kenneth Koch
(1925 - 2002)
John Ashbery
(1927 -)
Charles Simic
(1938 -)

 

Language Poetry

 

Lyn Hejinian
(1941 - )
Ron Silliman
(1946 - )
Barrett Watten
(1948 - )
Charles Bernstein
(1950 - )

Rae Rmantrout
(1947-)