| Description |
260 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Summary |
This collection of poems by 126 recipients of grants from the Academy of American Poets. This anthology offers a definitive overview of the past five decades of American poetry, encompassing works by Aiken, Auden, Sandburg, Ashbery, Updike, Gilpin, and others. |
| Form |
Also issued online. |
| Contents |
E. A. Robinson -- Edgar Lee Masters -- Ezra Pound -- Padraic Colum -- Witter Bynner -- Conrad Aiken -- Joseph Auslander -- John Crowe Ransom -- William Rose Benét -- Robinson Jeffers -- Edna St. Vincent Millay -- Oliver St. John Gogarty -- Archibald Macleish -- Allen Tate -- Edwin Markham -- Audrey Wurdemann -- Marianne Moore -- Muriel Rukeyser -- Carl Sandburg -- Dudley Pitts -- Percy McKaye -- Leonora Speyer -- E.E. Cummings -- Max Eastman --John Neihardt -- Ridgely Torrence -- Robert Frost -- Randall Jarrell -- Leonard Bacon -- Richard Eberhart -- Kenneth Rexroth -- Jesse Stuart -- Mark Van Doren -- W.H. Auden -- Rolfe Humphries -- Robert Francis -- Robert Nathan -- Louise Bogan -- Louise Townsend Nicholl -- Léonie Adams -- William Carlos Williams -- Robert Fitzgerald -- Daniel Berrigan -- Babette Deutsch -- Robert Hillyer -- Ned O'Gorman -- Richard Wilbur -- X.J. Kennedy -- John Hall Wheelock -- John Updike -- John Berryman -- Robert Lowell -- Adrien Stoutenberg -- David Wagoner -- Donald Justice -- May Swenson -- James Wright -- James Schuyler -- John Ashbery -- Robert Hayden -- Sylvia Plath -- Stanley Kunitz -- Peter Everwine -- Richard Lattimore -- Constance Carrier -- John Balaban -- Josephine Miles -- Daniel Hoffman -- Richard Hugo -- Stan Rice -- Elizabeth Bishop -- Philip Booth -- Horace Gregory -- James Merrill -- Jane Cooper -- Laura Gilpin -- Robert Mezey -- Edward Field -- Donald Hall -- John Hollander -- Robert Penn Warren -- AI -- W. D. Snodgrass -- Galway Kinnell -- Jared Carter -- Stephen Dobyns -- Anthony Hecht -- Howard Nemerov -- Marilyn Hacker -- William Meredith -- Mark Strand -- Marvin Bell -- Christopher Gilbert -- Edward Hirsch -- Philip Levine -- Larry Levis |
| Subject |
American poetry -- 20th century.
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| Chronological Term |
Geschichte 1934-1984
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| Added Author |
Warren, Robert Penn, 1905-1989.
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Academy of American Poets.
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| Added Title |
50 years of American poetry.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Fifty years of American poetry. New York : H.N. Abrams, 1984 (OCoLC)567894996 |
| ISBN |
0810909340: $27.50 |
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9780810909342 |
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