Table of Content
Introductory Essay. 1. Medieval Poetry. Chaucer. 2. Renaissance Poetry. Wyatt, Spenser, Raleigh, Sidney, Marlowe, Shakespeare, Campion, Donne, Jonson, Herrick, Herbert, Waller, Milton, Bradstreet, Lovelace, Marvell, Vaughan, Dryden, Philips, Behn. 3. Eighteenth Century Poetry. Wilmot, Swift, Pope, Gray, Collins, Blake, Burns. 4. Nineteenth Century Poetry. Wordsworth, Coleridge, Landor, Byron, Shelley, Keats, Emerson, Tennyson, Browning, Whitman, Arnold, Meredith, Rossetti, Rossetti, Dickinson, Swinburne. 5. Twentieth Century Poetry. Hardy, Hopkins, Housman, Yeats, Robinson, Frost, Stevens, Williams, Lawrence, Pound, Moore, Eliot, Ransom, MacLeish, Owen, Cummings, Bogan., Crane, Bunting, Hughes, Cullen, Birney, Eberhart, Kavanagh, Kunitz, Warren, Auden, Thomas, Jarrell, Reed, Stafford, Lowell, Brooks, Duncan, Ferlinghetti, Swenson, Clampitt, Wilbur, Larkin, Dickey, Levertov, Simpson, Kumin, Ammons, Bly, Creeley, Ginsberg, Snodgradd, O'Hara, Ashbery, Merwin, Tomlinson, Kinsella, Sexton, Rich, Hughes, Snyder, Hill, Plath, Baraka, Stallworthy, Atwood, Heaney, Lee, Giovanni, Forchè, Dove. Appendix: List of Poems by Genres and Subjects. Glossary of Critical Terms. Index of Authors. Titles, and First Lines.
