Chapter Ⅰ Colonial Period(1600-1800) 1
Anne Bradstreet(1612-1672) 6
Edward Taylor(c.1642-1729) 10
序言 14
Philip Freneau(1752-1832) 14
前言 19
Chapter Ⅱ The Age of Romanticism(1800-1900) 22
Edgar Allan Poe(1809-1849) 27
Ralph Waldo Emerson(1803-1882) 61
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow(1807-1882) 78
John Greenleaf Whittier(1807-1892) 98
Walt Whitman(1819-1892) 105
Emily Dickinson(1830-1886) 145
Stephen Crane(1871-1900) 167
Chapter Ⅲ The Age of Modernism(1900-1945) 174
Edwin Arlington Robinson(1869-1935) 183
Ezra Pound(1885-1972) 197
Hilda Doolittle(H.D.,1886-1961) 203
Amy Lowell(1874-1925) 206
William Carlos Williams(1883-1963) 209
T.S.Eliot(1888-1965) 223
Wallace Stevens(1879-1955) 248
E.E.Cummings(1894-1962) 268
Carl Sandburg(1878-1967) 279
Robert Frost(1874-1963) 290
Marianne Moore(1887-1972) 318
Chapter Ⅳ Contemporary Period(1945-present) 323
Theodore Roethke(1908-1963) 334
Randall Jarrell(1914-1965) 340
John Berryman(1914-1972) 344
Robert Lowell(1917-1977) 348
Anne Sexton(1928-1974) 365
Sylvia Plath(1932-1963) 370
Elizabeth Bishop(1911-1979) 385
Howard Nemerov(1920- ) 393
Richard Wilbur(1921- ) 396
Denise Levertov(1923- ) 403
Allen Ginsberg(1926-1997) 410
Frank O Hara(1926-1966) 434
John Ashbery(1927- ) 442
James Dickey(1923- ) 448
James Wright(1927-1980) 452
W.S.Merwin(1927- ) 457
Gary Snyder(1930- ) 464
Adrienne Rich(1929- ) 469
James Merrill(1926- ) 477
A.R.Ammons(1926- ) 488
Chapter Ⅴ Black Poetry 498
Phillis Wheatley(1754?-1784) 503
Paul Laurence Dunbar(1872-1906) 506
Countée Cullen(1903-1946) 511
Langston Hughes(1902-1967) 515
Gwendolyn Brooks(1917- ) 521
LeRoi Jones(Imamu Amiri Baraka,1934- ) 525
Appendix The Elements of poetry 530
Selected Bibliography 550