"Explores modern American poetry, including biographies of twelve poets such as Robert Frost, Ezra Pound, and Langston Hughes; excerpts of poems, literary criticism, poetic technique, and explication"--Provided by publisher.

Robert Frost -- Carl Sandburg -- Wallace Stevens -- William Carlos Williams -- Ezra Pound -- H.D -- Marianne Moore -- T. S. Eliot -- Edna St. Vincent Millay -- E. E. Cummings -- Louise Bogan -- Langston Hughes.