twentieth-century poetrymain page | 20th-century literature | about literaryhistory.com early 20th-century poets | imagists | modernists | poets of ww1 | objectivists | harlem renaissance | formalist | oxford group | midwestern | confessional | new york school | black mountain | beats & san francisco renaissance | nature & ecology | mid- & late-century american | later african american | british early 20th-century poetsThomas 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) imagist poetsAmy Lowell (1874-1925) William Carlos Williams (1883-1963) D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930) Ezra Pound (1885-1972) H.D. (1886-1961) modernistsGertrude 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) poets of world war 1Siegfried 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) objectivist poetsCharles Reznikoff (1894-1976) Lorine Niedecker (1903-1970) Louis Zukofsky (1904-1978) George Oppen (1908-1984) harlem renaissance poetsJames Weldon Johnson (1871-1938) Claude McKay (1889-1948) Jean Toomer (1894-1967) Melvin Tolson (1898-1966) Sterling Brown (1901-1989) Langston Hughes (1902-1967) Countee Cullen (1903-1946) new criticism & formalist poetsJohn 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) oxford groupCecil Day Lewis (1904-1972) W.H. Auden (1907-1973) Louis MacNeice (1907-1963) Stephen Spender (1909-1995) "The sense that, by the nineteen-forties, modern poetry had become too difficult-too remote from ordinary language and subjects, too hard to understand-was practically the only thing that united American poets of the mid-twentieth century: academic and populist, the students of John Crowe Ransom and the companions of Allen Ginsberg." (Adam Kirsch on James Wright) midwestern poetsTheodore Roethke (1908-1963) Robert Hayden (1913-1980) Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000) James Wright (1927-1980) Philip Levine (1928-2015) confessional poetsJohn Berryman (1914-1972) Robert Lowell (1917-1977) W.D. Snodgrass (1926-2009) Anne Sexton (1928-1974) Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) Sharon Olds (b. 1942) the new york school poetsBarbara Guest (1920-2006) James Schuyler (1923-1991) Kenneth Koch (1925-2002) Frank O'Hara (1926-1966) John Ashbery (1927-2017) Ted Berrigan (1934-1983) black mountain school poetsCharles Olson (1910-1970) Robert Duncan (1919-1988) Paul Blackburn (1919-1971) Denise Levertov (1923-1997) Robert Creeley (1926-2005) Edward Dorn (1929-1999) beats, san francisco renaissance & the left coastRobinson Jeffers (1887-1962) Kenneth Rexroth (1905-1982) William Everson (1912-1994) Lawrence Ferlinghetti (b. 1919) Charles Bukowski (1920-1994) Philip Whalen (1923-2002) Bob Kaufman (1925-1986) Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) Gregory Corso (1930-2001) Gary Snyder (b. 1930) Amiri Baraka (Leroi Jones) (1934-2014) Anne Waldman (b. 1945) nature & ecology poetsFrost, Robert (1874-1963) A.R. Ammons (1926-2001) Merwin, W.S. (b. 1927) Hall, Donald (1928-2018) Hughes, Ted (1930-1998) Snyder, Gary (b. 1930) other mid & late century american poetsBly, Robert (b. 1926) Bronk, William Collins, Billy Dickey, James Kunitz, Stanley Ozick, Cynthia Simic, Charles Wakoski, Diane Walcott, Derek later african american poetsAlexander, Elizabeth Clifton, Lucille Dove, Rita Harper, Michael Kaufman, Bob Lorde, Audre 20th-century english, irish, and welsh poetsThomas 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 (b. 1932) Seamus Heaney (b. 1939) Eavan Boland (b. 1944) Paul Muldoon (b. 1951) main page | 20th-century literature | about literaryhistory.com 1998-2018 by Jan Pridmore |