Guillaume Apollinaire -- Louis Aragon -- John Ashbery -- Ted Berrigan -- Andre Breton -- Paul Celan -- Jean Cocteau -- E.E. Cummings -- Sergei Esenin -- Barbara Guest -- Zbigniew Herbert -- Kenneth Koch -- Amy Lowell -- Stephane Mallarme -- Alice Notley -- Frank O'Hara -- Pierre Reverdy -- James Schuyler -- Delmore Schwartz -- Jaroslav Seifert -- Gertrude Stein -- Tristan Tzara -- Cesar Vallejo -- Anne Waldman -- Dean Young.
Summary
Profiles major poets throughout history and the world, including analyses of their significant individual poems or collections. Discusses influential poets such as Louis Aragon, John Ashbery, Jean Cocteau, and Gertrude Stein.