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Edna St. Vincent Millay (February 22, 1892 – October 19, 1950) was an American lyrical poet and playwright. Millay was a renowned social figure and noted feminist in New York City during the Roaring Twenties and beyond.
Theodore Huebner Roethke (/ ˈ r ɛ t k i / RET-kee; [1] May 25, 1908 – August 1, 1963) was an American poet. He is regarded as one of the most accomplished and influential poets of his generation, having won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1954 for his book The Waking, and the annual National Book Award for Poetry on two occasions: in 1959 for Words for the Wind, [2] and posthumously in ...
Louise Bogan (August 11, 1897 – February 4, 1970) was an American poet. [1] She was appointed the fourth Poet Laureate to the Library of Congress in 1945, and was the first woman to hold this title. [2] Throughout her life she wrote poetry, fiction, and criticism, and became the regular poetry reviewer for The New Yorker. [1]
The Library of Congress produces a guide to American poetry inspired by the 9/11 attacks, including anthologies and books dedicated to the subject. [32] [33] Robert Pinsky has a special place in American poetry as he was the poet laureate of the United States for three terms. [34] No other poet has been so honored.
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.
Hayden is also known as a nature poet and is included in the anthology Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry. His poem "A Plague of Starlings" is one of the more famous of his nature-based poems. [14] The poem "Night-Blooming Cereus" is another example of Hayden's depiction of the natural world.
Stevens is a rare example of a poet whose main output came largely only as he approached 40 years of age. His first major publication (four poems from a sequence titled "Phases" in the November 1914 edition of Poetry) [53] was written at age 35, although as an undergraduate at Harvard, Stevens had written poetry and exchanged sonnets with ...
Lowell's partner Ada Dwyer Russell was the subject of many of her romantic poems.. Lowell's partner Ada Dwyer Russell was the subject of many of Lowell's romantic poems, [21] and Lowell wanted to dedicate her books to Russell, but Russell would not allow that, and relented only once for Lowell's biography of John Keats, in which Lowell wrote, "To A.D.R.,