twentieth-century poetry
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early 20th-century poets
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)
imagist poets
Amy Lowell (1874-1925)
William Carlos Williams (1883-1963)
D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930)
Ezra Pound (1885-1972)
H.D. (1886-1961)
modernists
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)
poets of world war 1
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)
objectivist poets
Charles Reznikoff (1894-1976)
Lorine Niedecker (1903-1970)
Louis Zukofsky (1904-1978)
George Oppen (1908-1984)
harlem renaissance poets
James 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 poets
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)
oxford group
Cecil 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 poets
Theodore Roethke (1908-1963)
Robert Hayden (1913-1980)
Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000)
James Wright (1927-1980)
Philip Levine (1928-2015)
confessional poets
John 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 poets
Barbara 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 poets
Charles 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 coast
Robinson 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 poets
Frost, 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 poets
Bly, Robert (b. 1926)
Bronk, William
Collins, Billy
Dickey, James
Kunitz, Stanley
Ozick, Cynthia
Simic, Charles
Wakoski, Diane
Walcott, Derek
later african american poets
Alexander, Elizabeth
Clifton, Lucille
Dove, Rita
Harper, Michael
Kaufman, Bob
Lorde, Audre
20th-century english, irish, and welsh poets
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 (b. 1932)
Seamus Heaney (b. 1939)
Eavan Boland (b. 1944)
Paul Muldoon (b. 1951)
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