American Poets of the 20th Century

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American Poets of the 20th Century

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The Poets

Edgar Lee Masters (1868–1950)

Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869–1935)

Robert Frost (1874–1963)

Amy Lowell (1874–1925)

Carl Sandburg (1878–1967)

Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

William Carlos Williams (1883–1963)

Ezra Pound (1885–1972)

H. D. (1886–1961)

Robinson Jeffers (1887–1962)

Marianne Moore (1887–1972)

T. S. Eliot (1888–1965)

John Crowe Ransom (1888–1974)

Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950)

Jean Toomer (1894–1967)

Louise Bogan (1897–1970)

Hart Crane (1899–1933)

Allen Tate (1899–1979)

Sterling Brown (1901–1989)

Langston Hughes (1902–1967)

Countée Cullen (1903–1946)

Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979)

John Berryman (1914–1972)

Randall Jarrell (1914–1965)

Gwendolyn Brooks (1917–2000)

Robert Lowell (1917—1977)

Richard Wilbur (1921– )

James Dickey (1923–1997)

Denise Levertov (1923–1997)

A. R. Ammons (1926–2001)

Allen Ginsberg (1926–1997)

W. S. Merwin (1927– )

James Wright (1927–1980)

Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

Adrienne Rich (1929– )

Sylvia Plath (1932–1963)

Amiri Baraka (1934– )

Wendy Rose (1948– )

Joy Harjo (1951– )

Rita Dove (1952– )

Cathy Song (1955– )

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