| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
liii, 762 pages : portraits ; 25 cm |
| Note |
At head of title: In association with the Library of Congress. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 717-730) and index. |
| Contents |
2010- and 1999-2000: W.S. Merwin -- 2000-2010: Kay Ryan -- 2007-2008: Charles Simic -- 2006-2007: Donald Hall -- 2004-2006: Ted Kooser -- 2003-2004: Louise Glück -- 2001-2003: Billy Collins -- 2000-2001 and 1974-1976: Stanley Kunitz -- 1997-2000: Robert Pinsky -- 1995-1997: Robert Hass -- 1993-1995: Rita Dove -- 1992-1993: Mona Van Duyn -- 1991-1992: Joseph Brodsky -- 1990-1991: Mark Strand -- 1988-1990 and 1963-1964: Howard Nemerov -- 1987-1988: Richard Wilbur -- 1986-1987 and 1944-1945: Robert Penn Warren -- 1985-1986: Gwendolyn Brooks -- 1984-1985: Robert Fitzgerald -- 1982-1984: Anthony Hecht -- 1981-1982: Maxine Kumin -- 1978-1980: William Meredith -- 1976-1978: Robert Hayden --1973-1974: Daniel Hoffman --1971-1973: Josephine Jacobsen -- 1970-1971: William Stafford -- 1968-1970: William Jay Smith -- 1966-1968: James Dickey -- 1965-1966: Stephen Spender -- 1964-1965 and 1984-1985: Reed Whittemore -- 1961-1963: Louis Untermeyer -- 1959-1961: Richard Eberhart -- 1958-1959: Robert Frost -- 1956-1958: Randall Jarrell -- 1952: William Carlos Williams -- 1950-1952: Conrad Aiken -- 1949-1950: Elizabeth Bishop -- 1948-1949: Léonie Adams -- 1947-1948: Robert Lowell -- 1946-1947: Karl Shapiro -- 1945-1946: Louise Bogan -- 1943-1944: Allen Tate -- 1937-1941: Joseph Auslander. |
| Summary |
Poems by each of the forty-three poets who have been named our nation's Poet Laureate since the post (originally called Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress) was established in 1937. |
| Subject |
American poetry -- 20th century.
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American poetry -- 21st century.
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Poets laureate -- United States.
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| Added Author |
Schmidt, Elizabeth.
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Collins, Billy.
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Library of Congress.
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| ISBN |
9780393061819 |
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0393061817 |
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