This page contains information to help you explore the lives of American poets studied in this course.<\/p>\n
A brief biography<\/a> of Robinson (Academy of American Poets)<\/p>\n His life and comments on his poems<\/a> (Modern American Poetry HP)<\/p>\n About Robinson and his home in Gardiner, Maine<\/a><\/p>\n A brief biography<\/a> of Dunbar (Academy of American Poets)<\/p>\n His life and comments on his poems<\/a> (Modern American Poetry HP)<\/p>\n Photo Gallery of Dunbar<\/a> (Paul Laurence Dunbar Digital Collection)<\/p>\n Biography of Alice (Moore) Dunbar Nelson<\/a> (Poetry Foundation)<\/p>\n Commentary<\/a> on Dunbar-Nelson’s poems (modern American Poetry HP)<\/p>\n His life with commentary on his poems<\/a> (Modern American Poetry HP)<\/p>\n Petals on a Wet Black Bough: American Modernist Writers and the Orient <\/a>(Yale Univ.)<\/p>\n Biography<\/a> of Eliot and his Nobel Prize for Literature 1948<\/p>\n Biography and Additional Poems<\/a> from Poets.org<\/p>\n His life with commentary on his poems<\/a> (Modern American Poetry HP)<\/p>\n The Waste Land T.S. Eliot App<\/a> on the Apple App Store HP<\/p>\n His life with commentary on his poems<\/a> (Modern Ameircan Poetry HP)<\/p>\n Sound recordings of Williams readings his poems<\/a>, recorded 1942-1962<\/p>\n Her life along with commentary on her poems<\/a> (Modern American Poetry HP)<\/p>\n Her life along with commentary on her poems<\/a> (Modern American Poetry HP)<\/p>\n A web-site devoted to exploring influences on Amy Lowell’s imagist poetry<\/a><\/p>\n His life with commentary on his poems<\/a> (Modern American Poetry HP)<\/p>\n His life with commentary on his poems<\/a> (Modern American Poetry HP)<\/p>\n About Hughes and music<\/a> (Poetry Foundation.org)<\/p>\n His life with commentary on his poems<\/a> (Modern American Poetry HP)<\/p>\n More on Sandburg’s life and career<\/a><\/p>\n His life with commentary on his poems<\/a> (Modern American Poetry HP)<\/p>\n Her life with commentary on her poems<\/a> (Modern American Poetry HP)<\/p>\n Biography<\/a> from the Academy of American Poets<\/p>\n Her life with commentary on her poems<\/a> (Modern American Poetry HP)<\/p>\n His life with commentary on his poems<\/a> (Modern American Poetry HP)<\/p>\n His life with commentary on his poems<\/a> (Modern American Poetry HP)<\/p>\n Discussion of his poem <\/a>The Bridge<\/a><\/em> (1930)<\/p>\n More on his life and work<\/a> (Poetry Foundation)<\/p>\n His life with commentary on his poems<\/a> (Modern American Poetry HP)<\/p>\n Hear Lowell read his poem “My Old Flame<\/a>”<\/p>\n Elizabeth Bishop<\/p>\n Commentary on her life and poems<\/a> (Modern American Poetry HP)<\/p>\n Hear Plath read “The Applicant<\/a>”<\/p>\nPaul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906)<\/h4>\n
Alice Dunbar-Nelson (1875-1935)<\/h4>\n
Ezra Pound (1885-1972)<\/h4>\n
T. S. Eliot (1888-1965)<\/strong><\/h4>\n
William Carlos Williams (1883-1963)<\/h4>\n
H.D. [Hilda Doolittle] (1886-1961)<\/h4>\n
Amy Lowell (1874-1925)<\/h4>\n
Claude McKay (1889-1948)<\/strong><\/h4>\n
Langston Hughes (1902-1967)<\/strong><\/h4>\n
Carl Sandburg (1878-1967)<\/strong><\/h4>\n
Randall Jarrell (1914-1965)<\/strong><\/h4>\n
Edna St. Vincent Millay (1882-1950)<\/h4>\n
Muriel Rukeyser (1913-1980)<\/strong><\/h4>\n
Wallace Stevens (1879-1955)<\/h4>\n
Hart Crane (1899-1932)<\/h4>\n
Robert Lowell (1917-1977)<\/strong><\/h4>\n
Sylvia Plath (1932-1963)<\/strong><\/h4>\n
Anne Sexton (1928-1974)<\/strong><\/h4>\n