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Emily Dickinson. American poetry refers to the poetry of the United States.It arose first as efforts by American colonists to add their voices to English poetry in the 17th century, well before the constitutional unification of the Thirteen Colonies (although a strong oral tradition often likened to poetry already existed among Native American societies). [1]
The poets listed below were either born in the United States or else published much of their poetry while living in that country. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
Birches (poem) A Bird came down the Walk; The Bird with the Coppery, Keen Claws; Bivouac of the Dead; Black Cross (Hezekiah Jones) Black Perl; Blue Hills of Massachusetts; The Book of the Dead (poem) Brahma (poem) The Bridge (poem) The Broken Tower; Brooklyn August; Bryan, Bryan, Bryan, Bryan; Burn Baby Burn (poem) Bury Me in a Free Land
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (February 27, 1807 – March 24, 1882) was an American poet and educator. His original works include the poems "Paul Revere's Ride", "The Song of Hiawatha", and "Evangeline". He was the first American to completely translate Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy and was one of the fireside poets from New England.
Citizen: An American Lyric is a 2014 book-length poem [1] and a series of lyric essays by American poet Claudia Rankine. Citizen stretches the conventions of traditional lyric poetry by interweaving several forms of text and media into a collective portrait of racial relations in the United States. [2]
Proletarian poetry is a political poetry movement that developed in the United States during the 1920s and 1930s that expresses the class-conscious perspectives of the working-class. [2] Such poems are either explicitly Marxist or at least socialist , though they are often aesthetically disparate. [ 3 ]
New Formalism is a late 20th- and early 21st-century movement in American poetry that has promoted a return to metrical, rhymed verse and narrative poetry on the grounds that all three are necessary if American poetry is to compete with novels and regain its former popularity among the American people.
The poem was first read at their graduation from the College of New Jersey (later Princeton University) in 1771. [a] [1] [2] There were two versions published, one before and one after the American Revolutionary War. [3] It was mildly influential in describing a newfound sense of American national identity. [4]