The Norton anthology of modern poetry / edited by Richard Elimann and Robert O'Clair

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface -- Introduction -- Walt Whitman -- Emily Dickinson -- Thomas Hardy -- Robert Bridges -- John Davidson -- William Butler Yeats -- Edgar Lee Masters -- Edwin Arlington Robinson -- Walter De La Mare -- Robert Frost -- Carl Sandburg -- Edward Thomas -- John Masefield -- Wallace Stevens -- Vachel Lindsay -- James Stephen -- James Joyce -- Ann Spencer -- E.J. Pratt -- William Carlos Williams -- D.H Wallace -- Ezra Pound -- H.D. (Hilda Dolittle) -- Siegfried Sassoon -- Robinson Jeffers -- Edwin Muir -- Edith Sitwell -- Marianne Moore -- John Crowe Ransom -- T.S. Elliot -- Conrad Aiken -- Claude McKay -- Edna St. Vincent Millay -- Archibald MacLeish -- Hugh MacDiarmid -- Wilfred Owen -- Herbert Read -- E.E. Cummings -- Jean Toomer -- Robert Graves -- David Jones -- Austin Clarke -- Hart Crane -- Allen Tate -- Basil Bunting -- Yvor Winters -- Laura Riding -- Langston Hughes -- Stevie Smith -- Countee Cullen -- William Plomer -- Louis Zukofsy -- Richard Eberhart -- Cecil Day Lewis -- Patrick Kavanagh -- Robert Penn Warren -- Stanley Kunitz -- Kenneth Rexroth -- John Betjeman -- Samuel Beckett -- Vernon Watkins -- William Empson -- W.H. Auden -- Lincoln Kirstein -- Theodore Reothke -- A.D. Hope -- Louis MacNeice -- Richard Wright -- Stephen Spender -- W.R. Rodgers -- Charles Olson -- Elizabeth Bishop -- Josephine Miles -- J.V. Cunningham -- Roy Fuller -- Brother Antoninus (William Everson -- Karl Shapiro -- Robert Hayden -- Delmore Schwartz -- Dudley Randall -- Weldon Kees -- Randall Jarrell -- John Berryman -- Dylan Thomas -- John Malcolm Brinnin -- Theodore Weiss -- Robert Lowell -- Gwendolyn Brooks -- Robert Conquest -- Margaret Avison -- A.W. Purdy -- Robert Duncan -- William Meredith -- Lawrence Ferlinghetti -- Edwin Honig -- David Wright -- Howard Nemerov -- Richard Wilbur -- Kingley Amis -- Philip Larkin -- Anthony Hect -- James Dickey -- Alan Dugan -- Louis Simpson -- Dannie Abse -- Denise Levertov -- James Schuyler -- Kenneth Koch -- W.D. Snodgrass -- A.R. Ammons -- James Merrill -- Robert Creeley -- Allen Ginsberg -- Frank O'Hara -- Paul Blackburn -- Robert Bly -- Charles Tomlinson -- John Ashbery -- W.S. Werin -- James Wright -- Philip Levine -- Thomas Kinsella -- Irving Feldman -- Slyvia Plath -- Etheridge Knight -- Mark Strand -- Leonard Cohen -- Imamu Amiri Baraka -- Ted Berrigan -- Richard Emil Braun -- Jon Stallworthy -- Desmond O'Grady -- Daryl Hine -- Judith Johnson Sherwin -- Diane Wakoski -- Roger McGough -- Jim Harrison -- Ian Hamilton -- Dom Moraes -- Seamus Heaney -- Don L. Lee -- Nikki Giovanni -- James Tate -- Bibliography -- Index by Authors. Titles, and Firts Lines

The most acute rendering of an era's sensibility is its poetry. In the twentieth century, probably in reaction to its horrors, poets have created new and powerful consolidations of the imaginative life. Some writers have accepted the discipline of the literary tradition, others have flouted it. During the last seventy-five years in the English-speaking nations, many poets of consequence have written well in an unprecedented range of styles and subjects. This book aspires to present their best work, and also to delineate the many different tendencies of modern poetry in English.