Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The Twentieth Century

Eric Haralson is Associate Professor at the Department of English, Stony Brook University, USA.

"Concise and well-written essays." Choice"A valuable tool for students interested in 20th-century American poetry." Booklist/RBB

• Selected entries: Maya Angelou, Anthologies, Textbooks and Canon Formation, Asian American Poetry, W.H. Auden, Beat Poetry, John Berryman, Elizabeth Bishop, Confessional Poetry, e.e. Cummings, Dada, T. S. Eliot, Expatriate Poetry, Experimental/Avant Garde Poetry, Robert Frost, Gay and Lesbian Poetry, Harlem Renaissance, Robert Hass, H.D., Hispanic American Poetry, Langston Hughes, Imagism, Galway Kinnell, Vachel Lindsey, Literary theory and poetry, Midwestern Poetry Renaissance, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Modernism, Vladimir Nabokov, Native American Poetry, New Criticism, New York School, Judith Ortiz Cofer, Performance Poetry, Prizes, John Crowe Ransom, Religion and Poetry, Adrienne Rich, W.D. Snodgrass, Jean Toomer, War and Anti-War Poetry, Louis Zukofsky