A major and sometimes controversial figure of the Harlem Renaissance, Countee Cullen fused a mastery of the formal lyric with a passionate engagement with themes social, religious, racial, and persona
Stephen Foster (1826-1864) is the trunk of the tree of American song. His blackface minstrel songs, including "Oh! Susanna," "Old Folks at Home" ("Way down upon the Swanee River..."), and "My Old Ken
The collaboration of Ira and George Gershwin was one of the summits of American popular music. Ira GershwinA's lyricsA-with their stylish simplicity, exuberant comic invention, and colloquial eloquen
THE WOMEN'S MOVEMENT OF THE 1960s, 70s, AND 80s generated an extraordinary outpouring of poetry that captured an age of expectancy, of defiant purpose, and exuberant exploration. Here, brought togeth
Steeped in the metaphysics and music of Elizabethan verse, alert to the nuances of the American vernacular, Agee's poetry is eloquent and wide-ranging. It exhibits, writes Andrew Hudgins, "a variety
On October 3rd, 2007 Anne Stevenson was named the second recipient of the Poetry FoundationA's Neglected Masters Award. The award brings renewed critical attention to the life's work of a significant
A tribute to the traditional verse form compiles 180 varied works by approximately 120 poets including Longfellow, Poe, and Frost, in a volume that offers insight into the sonnet's reflection of emoti
Draws on the full range of the New York School-educated writer's body of poetry and offers insight into his transition from high-energy comic writings into the more lyrical pieces of his later years,
A volume of key works by the early twentieth-century midwestern American poet offers insight into his ability to capture the voices of the nation's workers and disadvantaged groups, in an anthology th
A single-volume selection of the influential Objectivist poet's works includes several of his short pieces as well as excerpts from his twenty-four-part, "A," in a collection that offers insight into
Containing works that evince meditative, comic, or emotionally poignant themes, a volume of poetic works by the writer of The Last Avant-Garde includes pieces that reflect his descriptive cadences as
A selection of the influential African-American poet's works reflects her modernist style and includes numerous definitive World War II poems as well as pieces about the social and political upheavals
A collection of original and definitive poems, published in conjunction with the nineteenth-century American poet's receipt of The Poetry Foundation's first Neglected Masters Award, offers insight int
Features a range of previously unpublished works as well as pieces written in response to World War I, in a comprehensive survey that that sheds light on how Wharton used poetry to express the deeply
A collection of poems by the twentieth-century American professor best known for his post-World War II writings reflects the spiritual and autobiographical themes of his works, his life-long search fo
An authoritative anthology of Civil War poetry and songs includes pieces by such writers as Walt Whitman, Herman Melville, and John Greenleaf Whittier, in a collection that reflects on such topics as
Draws on the collections of the nineteenth-century Jewish-American poet from her early works, published in her teens, to her definitive writings in Songs of a Semite, in a volume that offers insight i
Explores the twentieth-century poet's emulation of the everyday protagonist's search for connection, discussing the accomplishments of such early works as Homage to Mistress Bradstreet, his evocative
An authoritative analysis of key works offers insight into the poet's influential achievements, intimate style, and blending of both local and ancient inspirations, in a volume that covers his hard-ed
Muriel Rukeyser (1913A-80) published her first bookA-the powerfully experimental Theory of FlightA-at age twenty-two, and went on to an adventurous and prolific career as poet, translator, and politi
A devout Quaker who became a passionate poetic spokesman for the antislavery movement, John Greenleaf Whittier (1807A-92) was one of the most beloved American poets of his era. In the years before th
Distinguished poet and critic John Hollander offers, for the first time ever, a buoyant guided tour of American light verse-a tradition he delightfully pursues from Ambrose Bierce's sardonic The Devi
As critic and teacher, Yvor Winters was one of the most controversial and influential figures of his time. He criticized the likes of Eliot and Henry James, was called by the chair of his English dep
Poe thought of himself as fundamentally a poet, even though he felt that economic pressures had prevented him from devoting himself fully to what "under happier circumstances, would have been the fie
Harold Bloom, author of The Western Canon and one of the world's most renowned literary critics, surveys Walt Whitman's vast poetic work, from early notebook fragments of Song of Myself to the late p
A lively selection by J. D. McClatchy, the distinguished poet, critic, and editor, casts Millay's career in a new light. Here are familiar favorites alongside neglected gems: translations, a verse pl
