introduction anne bradstreet and edward taylor early african american poetry the epic in the nineteenth century longfellow in the aftermath of modernism the american transcendentalist poets emily dickinson walt whitman's revisionary democracy edgar allan poe lowell, teasdale, wylie, millay, and bogan women poets and the emergence of modernism robert frost and the poetry of survival ezra pound's imagist aesthetics: lustra to mauberley t.s. eliot marianne moore and elizabeth bishop wallace stevens william carlos williams hart crane's difficult passage the poetry of the harlem renaissance warren, with ransom and tate american auden the twentiety-century long poem public music beat poetry and the san francisco poetry renaissance john berryman, theodore roethke, and the elegy what was confessional poetry? the postconfessinal lyric the black arts poets nature's refrain in american poetry native american poetry james merrill and john ashbery the visionary poetics of philip levine and charles wright contributors index