Thematic Guide to American PoetryPoetry : To a New England Poet (Philip Freneau) ; Merlin (Ralph Waldo Emerson) ; Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking (Walt Whitman) ; This was a Poet--It is That (Emily Dickinson) ; Oh for a poet--for a beacon bright (Edwin Arlington Robinson) ; Petit, the Poet (Edgar Lee Masters) ; A Pact (Ezra Pound) ; Poetry (Marianne More) ; Ars Poetica (Archibald MacLeish) ; The Wind Increases (William Carlos Williams) ; A Sort of a Song (William Carlos Williams) ; For My Contemporaries (J.V. Cunningham) ; American Poetry (Louis Simpson) ; Because You Asked about the Line between Poetry and Prose (Howard Nemerov) ; The Next Poem (Dana Gioia) -- The Self : Song of Myself (Walt Whitman) ; I dwell in Possibility (Emily Dickinson) ; Desert Places (Robert Frost) ; The Heavy Bear Who Goes with Me (Delmore Schwartz) ; Theme for English B (Langston Hughes) ; April Inventory (W.D. Snodgrass) ; Skunk Hour (Robert Lowell) ; In the Waiting Room (Elizabeth Bishop) -- Skepticism and Belief : On the Religion of Nature (Philip Freneau) ; On the Uniformity and Perfection of Nature (Philip Freneau) ; On the Universality and Other Attributes of the God of Nature (Philip Freneau) ; To a Waterfowl (William Cullen Bryant) ; The Problem (Ralph Waldo Emerson) ; The Chambered Nautilus (Oliver Wendell Holmes) ; Faith is a fine invention (Emily Dickinson) ; Some keep the Sabbath going to Church (Emily Dickinson) ; I know that He exists (Emily Dickinson) ; Sunday Morning (Wallace Stevens) ; Journey of the Magi (T.S. Eliot) ; Design (Robert Frost) ; Love Calls Us to the Things of This World (Richard Wilbur) ; In a Dark Time (Theodore Roethke) ; Boom! (Howard Nemerov) ; The Hereafter (Andrew Hudgins). |