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American literature: poetry

Beach, Christopher. ABC of Influence: Ezra Pound and the Remaking of American Poetic Tradition. University of California Press, 1992. A scholarly study of modern poets who have broken with tradition.

Bloom, Harold, and David Lehman, eds. The Best of the Best American Poetry, 1988-1997. Scribner, 1998. A selection of 75 recent poems that noted critic Harold Bloom deems to be the best poems published from 1988 to 1997.

Haas, Robert, and others, eds. The Library of America 20th-Century American Poetry: E.E. Cumming to May Swenson. Library of America, 1999. Anthology of 200 poets and their works.

Haas, Robert, and others, eds. The Library of America 20th-Century American Poetry: Henry Adams to Dorothy Parker. Library of America, 2000.

Major, Clarence, ed. The Garden Thrives: Twentieth-Century African-American Poetry. HarperCollins, 1996. Anthology with notes; includes works by nearly 100 poets.

Niatum, Duane. Harpers' Anthology of Twentieth-Century Native American Poetry. Harper & Row, 1986. The work of 36 Native American poets.

Parini, Jay, and Brett Candlish Millier, eds. The Columbia History of American Poetry. Columbia University Press, 1993. One massive volume covers American poetry from the Puritans to the present day. Provides generous coverage of African American and Native American poets.

Vendler, Helen. Part of Nature, Part of Us: Modern American Poets. Harvard University Press, 1980, 1981. Essays introducing more than 30 poets.

Waggoner, Hyatt H. American Poets from the Puritans to the Present. Louisiana State University Press, 1984. Classic historical survey.

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