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American Poets
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links to works containing poems, criticism or biography of the poet - from Ebook Central unless otherwise noted.
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POETS:
ANGELOUS, Maya
Maya Angelou at the Internet Archive
ASHBERY, John
Criminal Ingenuity : Moore, Cornell, Ashbery, and the Struggle Between the Arts
How Poets See the World : The Art of Description in Contemporary Poetry
John Ashbery, an introduction to the poetry
On the outside looking out : John Ashbery's poetry
Shifting Ground : Reinventing Landscape in Modern American Poetry
The Tennis Court Oath : A Book of Poems
Uncertainty and Plenitude : Five Contemporary Poets
BARNSTONE, Willis
We Jews and Blacks : Memoir with Poems
BERRY, Wendell
Berryman's Henry : Living at the Intersection of Need and Art
The Selected Poems of Wendell Berry
Unforeseen Self in the Works of Wendell Berry
BISHOP, Elizabeth
Elizabeth Bishop at the Internet Archive
BARAKA, Amiri
"In Memory of Radio" - criticism in Poetry for Students v. 9 at the Internet Archive
BENNETT, Gwendolyn B.
Aphrodite's Daughters : Three Modernist Poets of the Harlem Renaissance
BERRYMAN, John
After Thirty Falls : New Essays on John Berryman
John Berryman : University of Minnesota Pamphlets on American Writers No. 85
BISHOP, Elizabeth
Elizabeth Bishop and Marianne Moore : The Psychodynamics of Creativity
The Motive for Metaphor : Brief Essays on Poetry and Psychoanalysis
The Wicked Sisters : Women Poets, Literary History, and Discord
BRADSTREET, Anne
Women Poets of the English Civil War
Anne Bradstreet at the Internet Archive
BROOKS, GWENDOLYN
The Wicked Sisters : Women Poets, Literary History, and Discord
CLIFTON, Lucille
The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton 1965-2010
COLLINS, Billy
American Poetry Now : Pitt Poetry Series Anthology
The Apple That Astonished Paris : Poems by Billy Collins
The Motive for Metaphor : Brief Essays on Poetry and Psychoanalysis
COWDERY, Mae V.
Aphrodite's Daughters : Three Modernist Poets of the Harlem Renaissance
CRANE, Hart
CRANE, Stephen
"War is Kind" - criticism in Poetry for Students v. 9 at the Internet Archive
Stephen Crane at the Internet Archive
CUMMINGS, E. E.
E.E. Cummings : University of Minnesota Pamphlets on American Writers No. 87
Words into Pictures : E. E. Cummings’ Art Across Borders
Zoopoetics : Animals and the Making of Poetry
E. E. Cummings at the Internet Archive
DICKINSON, Emily
The Cambridge Introduction to Emily Dickinson
The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson
Dickinson's Misery : A Theory of Lyric Reading
Emily Dickinson : University of Minnesota Pamphlets on American Writers No. 81
Emily Dickinson and Philosophy
A Historical Guide to Emily Dickinson
The Language of the Senses Sensory-Perceptual Dynamics in Wordsworth, Cleridge, Thoreau, Whitman, and Dickinson
A Place for Humility : Whitman, Dickinson, and the Natural World
Poets Thinking : Pope, Whitman, Dickinson, Yeats
Three American Poets : Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, and Herman Melville
The Wicked Sisters : Women Poets, Literary History, and Discord
Emily Dickinson at the Internet Archive
DUTTON, Nicole Terez
If One of Us Should Fall
ELIOT, T. S.
Poetic Argument : Studies in Modern Poetry
EMERSON, Ralph Waldo
American Metempsychosis : Emerson, Whitman, and the New Poetry
Emerson : A National Icon for a Post-National Age
Emerson and Eros : The Making of a Cultural Hero
Emerson for the Twenty-First Century
Emerson, Romanticism, and Intuitive Reason : The Transatlantic Light of All Our Day
First We Read, Then We Write : Emerson on the Creative Process
Freedom and Fate: An Inner Life of Ralph Waldo Emerson