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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.
In January 1930, the work was published by Black Sun Press in Paris and subsequently by Boni & Liveright in the United States in April. [5] The work received poor reviews, and Crane struggled with a sense of failure. [14] His ambition to synthesize America was expressed in The Bridge, intended to be an uplifting counter to Eliot's The Waste Land.
First edition (publ. Black Sun Press) The Bridge, first published in 1930 by the Black Sun Press, is Hart Crane's first, and only, attempt at a long poem. (Its primary status as either an epic or a series of lyrical poems remains contested; recent criticism tends to read it as a hybrid, perhaps indicative of a new genre, the "modernist epic."
Thomas Hood (23 May 1799 – 3 May 1845) was an English poet, author and humorist, best known for poems such as "The Bridge of Sighs" and "The Song of the Shirt". Hood wrote regularly for The London Magazine, Athenaeum, and Punch. He later published a magazine largely consisting of his own works.
Rodney Marvin McKuen (/ m ə ˈ k j uː ə n / mə-KEW-ən; né Woolever; April 29, 1933 – January 29, 2015) was an American poet, singer-songwriter, and composer.He was one of the best-selling poets in the United States during the late 1960s.
The Bridge of Sighs" is particularly well-known because of its novel meter, complex three syllable rhymes, varied rhyming scheme and pathetic subject matter. The poem describes the woman as having been immersed in the grimy water, but having been washed so that whatever sins she may have committed are obliterated by the pathos of her death.
Cathy Smith Bowers (born 1949), US poet; North Carolina Poet Laureate 2010–2012; Edgar Bowers (1924–2000), US poet and Bollingen Prize in Poetry winner; Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński (1874–1941), Polish poet, critic and translator; Mark Alexander Boyd (1562–1601), Scottish poet and mercenary; Kay Boyle (1902–1992), US writer, educator and ...
Frederic Ogden Nash (August 19, 1902 – May 19, 1971) was an American poet well known for his light verse, of which he wrote more than 500 pieces.With his unconventional rhyming schemes, he was declared by The New York Times to be the country's best-known producer of humorous poetry.