Twentieth Century American Poetry

Contains:

• modern and contemporary American poetry
• major works of the modernist period – including the poems of Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, and e.e. cummings
• contemporary works including the poems of Robinson Jeffers and Edna St. Vincent Millay
• representive movements, including:
• the Black Mountain school of Charles Olson and Robert Duncan
• Deep Image poetry of Robert Bly and James Wright
• underground literature by the Beat poets
• influential feminist works of Adrienne Rich
• selected major African American writers
• the Yale Series of Young Poets and the University of Pittsburgh's Pitt Poetry Series