twentieth-century poetry

Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)

William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)

Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935)

Robert Frost (1874-1963)

Carl Sandburg (1878-1967)

Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950)

Amy Lowell (1874-1925)

William Carlos Williams (1883-1963)

D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930)

Ezra Pound (1885-1972)

H.D. (1886-1961)

Gertrude Stein (1874-1946)

Wallace Stevens (1879-1955)

Mina Loy (1882-1966)

William Carlos Williams (1883-1963)

Ezra Pound (1885-1972)

D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930)

H.D. (1886-1961)

Marianne Moore (1887-1972)

T.S. Eliot (1888-1965)

Conrad Aiken (1889-1973)

E.E. Cummings (1894-1962)

Hart Crane (1899-1932)

Laura Riding (1901-1991)

Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967)

Rupert Brooke (1887-1915)

Isaac Rosenberg (1890-1918)

Wilfred Owen (1893-1918)

Robert Graves (1895-1985)

David Jones (1895-1974)

Edmund Blunden (1896-1974)

War Poetry

Charles Reznikoff (1894-1976)

Lorine Niedecker (1903-1970)

Louis Zukofsky (1904-1978)

George Oppen (1908-1984)

James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938)

Claude McKay (1889-1948)

Jean Toomer (1894-1967)

Sterling Brown (1901-1989)

Langston Hughes (1902-1967)

Countee Cullen (1903-1946)

The Harlem Renaissance

John Crowe Ransom (1888-1974)

Allen Tate (1899-1979)

Yvor Winters (1900-1968)

Robert Penn Warren (1905-1989)

Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979)

Randall Jarrell (1914-1965)

Robert Lowell (1917-1977)

James Merrill (1926-1995)

Cecil Day Lewis (1904-1972)

W.H. Auden (1907-1973)

Louis MacNeice (1907-1963)

Stephen Spender (1909-1995)

Theodore Roethke (1908-1963)

Robert Hayden (1913-1980)

Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000)

James Wright (1927-1980)

Philip Levine (1928- )

John Berryman (1914-1972)

Robert Lowell (1917-1977)

W.D. Snodgrass (1926–2009)

Anne Sexton (1928-1974)

Sylvia Plath (1932-1963)

Sharon Olds (1942- )

Barbara Guest (1920-2006)

Kenneth Koch (1925-2002)

Frank O'Hara (1926-1966)

John Ashbery (1927- )

Ted Berrigan (1934-1983)

Charles Olson (1910-1970)

Robert Duncan (1919-1988)

Paul Blackburn (1919-1971)

Denise Levertov (1923-1997)

Robert Creeley (1926-2005)

Edward Dorn (1929-1999)

Robinson Jeffers (1887-1962)

Kenneth Rexroth (1905-1982)

William Everson (1912-1994)

Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1919-)

Charles Bukowski (1920-1994)

Philip Whalen (1923-2002)

Bob Kaufman (1925-1986)

Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997)

Gregory Corso (1930-2001)

Gary Snyder (1930-)

Amiri Baraka (Leroi Jones) (1934-)

Anne Waldman (1945-)

About the Beats

A.R. Ammons (1926-2001)

Frost, Robert

Hall, Donald

Hughes, Ted

Merwin, W.S.

Oliver, Mary

Snyder, Gary

Bly, Robert (1926-)

Boyle, Kay

Brodsky, Joseph

Bronk, William

Collins, Billy

Dickey, James

Kunitz, Stanley

Ozick, Cynthia

Rich, Adrienne

Simic, Charles

Soto, Gary

Stafford, William

Wakoski, Diane

Walcott, Derek

Alexander, Elizabeth

Angelou, Maya

Baraka, Amiri

Brooks, Gwendolyn

Clifton, Lucille

Dove, Rita

Giovanni, Nikki

Harper, Michael

Hayden, Robert

Kaufman, Bob

Lorde, Audre

Walker, Alice

Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)

William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)

Mina Loy (1882-1966)

Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967)

Rupert Brooke (1887-1915)

Isaac Rosenberg (1890-1918)

Hugh MacDiarmid (1892-1978)

Wilfred Owen (1893-1918)

Robert Graves (1895-1985)

David Jones (1895-1974)

Edmund Blunden (1896-1974)

Stevie Smith (1902-1971)

Cecil Day Lewis (1904-1972)

W.H. Auden (1907-1973)

Louis MacNeice (1907-1963)

Stephen Spender (1909-1995)

Dylan Thomas (1915-1953)

Philip Larkin (1922-1985)

Denise Levertov (1923-1997)

Ted Hughes (1930-1998)

Geoffrey Hill (1932-)

Seamus Heaney (1939-)

Eavan Boland (1944-)

Paul Muldoon (1951-)