Part One Symbolism 1
Chapter One Thomas Steams Eliot(1888-1965) 4
Part Two Imagism 15
Chapter Two Ezra Pound(1885-1972) 19
Chapter Three Carl Sandburg(1878-1967) 32
Part Three Traditionalists 38
Chapter Four Edwin Arlington Robinson(1869-1935) 40
Chapter Five Robert Lee Frost(1874-1963) 50
Part Four Surrealism 56
Chapter Six Wallace Stevens(1879-1955) 59
Chapter Seven William Carlos Williams(1883-1963) 68
Chapter Eight Edward Estlin Cummings(1894-1962) 76
Chapter Nine Robinson Jeffers(1887-1962) 98
Part Five Harlem Renaissance 105
Chapter Ten Claude McKay(1889-1948) 107
Chapter Eleven Langston Hughes(1902-1967) 115
Part Six The Beats 127
Chapter Twelve Allen Ginsburg(1926-1997) 129
Chapter Thirteen Gary Snyder(1930- ) 150
Chapter Fourteen Kenneth Rexroth(1905-1982) 159
Part Seven Confessionalists 180
Chapter Fifteen Robert Lowell(1917-1977) 182
Chapter Sixteen John Ashbery(1927- ) 193
Part Eight Women Poets 197
Chapter Seventeen Anne Sexton(1928-1974) 199
Chapter Eighteen Sylvia Plath(1932-1963) 208
Works Cited 219