Modern American Poetry (Annotated)

Enriched Edition. An Anthology of American Verse, Free Verse, Modernist Experiment, and Democratic Voices from Whitman to RukeyserBy Various

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Modern American Poetry gathers the restless energies of a literature shaped by rupture, experimentation, and democratic multiplicity. Read as an anthology, it traces the movement from inherited lyric forms toward free verse, imagism, modernist fragmentation, confessional intensity, and socially engaged utterance. Its poems register urban acceleration, war, migration, race, gender, industrial modernity, and the persistent search for a distinctly American idiom. The collection's value lies not only in individual brilliance but in the conversation it stages among competing voices and forms. Because the author is "Various," the book is best understood as a collective portrait rather than a single imaginative project. Its makers are the poets themselves, drawn from divergent regions, traditions, and historical pressures, each responding to the transformation of American life in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and beyond. Their varied backgrounds—immigrant, rural, metropolitan, marginalized, academic, radical—help explain the anthology's breadth and its refusal of one authoritative national voice. This volume is highly recommended for readers seeking an intelligent entrance into American poetic modernity. Students, teachers, and general readers will find in it a compact but resonant map of literary innovation, cultural conflict, and enduring artistic ambition. This enriched edition has been carefully crafted to add value to your reading experience. - An Introduction draws the threads together, discussing why these diverse authors and texts belong in one collection. - Historical Context explores the cultural and intellectual currents that shaped these works, offering insight into the shared (or contrasting) eras that influenced each writer. - A combined Synopsis (Selection) briefly outlines the key plots or arguments of the included pieces, helping readers grasp the anthology's overall scope without giving away essential twists. - A collective Analysis highlights common themes, stylistic variations, and significant crossovers in tone and technique, tying together writers from different backgrounds. - Reflection questions encourage readers to compare the different voices and perspectives within the collection, fostering a richer understanding of the overarching conversation.

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Publish dateDec 2, 2023

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1Introduction

197Grace Hazard Conkling

2Introduction

198THE WHOLE DUTY OF BERKSHIRE BROOKS

3Historical Context

199FROST ON A WINDOW

4Synopsis (Selection)

200Amelia Josephine Burr

5PREFACE The Civil War—and After

201BATTLE-SONG OF FAILURE

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6THE “POST-MORTEM” PERIOD

202Don Marquis

7WALT WHITMAN

203UNREST

8THE AWAKENING OF THE WEST

204John Erskine

9REACTION AND REVOLT IN THE ’90S

205James Branch Cabell

10INTERIM—1890–1912

206SEA-SCAPES

11RENASCENCE—1913

207ONE END OF LOVE

12ROBINSON AND MASTERS

208Vachel Lindsay

13FROST AND SANDBURG

209THE EAGLE THAT IS FORGOTTEN

14THE IMAGISTS

210THE CONGO

15THE NEW FOLK-POETRY

211TO A GOLDEN HAIRED GIRL IN A LOUISIANA TOWN

16LINDSAY, OPPENHEIM AND OTHERS

212THE TRAVELLER

17SUMMARY—THE NEW SPIRIT

213A NEGRO SERMON:—SIMON LEGREE

18Emily Dickinson

214ABRAHAM LINCOLN WALKS AT MIDNIGHT

19CHARTLESS

215Edwin Meade Robinson

20INDIAN SUMMER

216HOW HE TURNED OUT

21SUSPENSE

217“HALCYON DAYS”

22THE RAILWAY TRAIN

218Franklin P. Adams

23A CEMETERY

219WAR AND PEACE

24BECLOUDED

220THE RICH MAN

25Thomas Bailey Aldrich

221THOSE TWO BOYS

26MEMORY

222John G. Neihardt

27“ENAMORED ARCHITECT OF AIRY RHYME”

223WHEN I AM DEAD

28TWO QUATRAINS

224CRY OF THE PEOPLE

29John Hay

225LET ME LIVE OUT MY YEARS

30JIM BLUDSO, OF THE PRAIRIE BELLE

226Witter Bynner

31BANTY TIM

227GRASS-TOPS

32Bret Harte

228VOICES

33“JIM”

229A FARMER REMEMBERS LINCOLN

34PLAIN LANGUAGE FROM TRUTHFUL JAMES

230TRAIN-MATES

35Joaquin Miller

231James Oppenheim

36BY THE PACIFIC OCEAN

232THE RUNNER IN THE SKIES

37CROSSING THE PLAINS

233THE SLAVE

38FROM “ BYRON ”

234TASTING THE EARTH

39Edward Rowland Sill

235THE LINCOLN CHILD

40SOLITUDE

236Alice Corbin

41DARE YOU?

237ECHOES OF CHILDHOOD

42Sidney Lanier

238Lola Ridge

43SONG OF THE CHATTAHOOCHEE

239PASSAGES FROM “THE GHETTO”

44NIGHT AND DAY

240NEW ORLEANS

45FROM “THE MARSHES OF GLYNN”

241WIND IN THE ALLEYS

46Charles Edward Carryl

242Wallace Stevens

47THE PLAINT OF THE CAMEL

243PETER QUINCE AT THE CLAVIER

48ROBINSON CRUSOE’S STORY

244Alfred Kreymborg

49James Whitcomb Riley

245OLD MANUSCRIPT

50“WHEN THE FROST IS ON THE PUNKIN”

246DAWNS

51A PARTING GUEST

247HER EYES

52Eugene Field

248IMPROVISATION

53OUR TWO OPINIONS

249Arthur Davison Ficke

54LITTLE BOY BLUE

250PORTRAIT OF AN OLD WOMAN

55SEEIN’ THINGS

251THE THREE SISTERS

56Edwin Markham

252SONNET

57OUTWITTED

253Badger Clark

58THE MAN WITH THE HOE

254THE GLORY TRAIL

59PREPAREDNESS

255THE COYOTE

60LINCOLN, THE MAN OF THE PEOPLE

256Marguerite Wilkinson

61C. E. S. Wood

257BEFORE DAWN IN THE WOODS

62SUNRISE

258Harry Kemp

63THE DESERT

259STREET LAMPS

64Irwin Russell

260A PHANTASY OF HEAVEN

65BLESSING THE DANCE

261Max Eastman

66DE FUST BANJO

262COMING TO PORT

67Edith M. Thomas

263HOURS

68“FROST TO-NIGHT”

264AT THE AQUARIUM

69George Edward Woodberry

265Arturo Giovannitti

70IMMORTAL LOVE

266FROM “THE WALKER”

71A SONG OF SUNRISE

267Eunice Tietjens

72H. C. Bunner

268THE MOST-SACRED MOUNTAIN

73SHAKE, MULLEARY AND GO-ETHE

269THE DRUG CLERK

74BEHOLD THE DEEDS!

270Sara Teasdale

75A PITCHER OF MIGNONETTE

271NIGHT SONG AT AMALFI

76Lizette Woodworth Reese

272SPRING NIGHT

77TEARS

273I SHALL NOT CARE

78THE DUST

274THE LONG HILL

79SPICEWOOD

275WATER LILIES

80Horace Traubel

276TIRED

81HOW ARE YOU, DEAR WORLD, THIS MORNING?

277Gladys Cromwell

82O MY DEAD COMRADE

278THE CROWNING GIFT

83Frank Dempster Sherman

279THE MOULD

84AT MIDNIGHT

280Ezra Pound

85BACCHUS

281A GIRL

86TWO QUATRAINS

282A VIRGINAL

87Charlotte P. S. Gilman

283BALLAD FOR GLOOM

88A CONSERVATIVE

284Δωρια

89Louise Imogen Guiney

285IN A STATION OF THE METRO

90THE WILD RIDE

286Louis Untermeyer

91Bliss Carman

287SUMMONS

92A VAGABOND SONG

288CALIBAN IN THE COAL MINES

93THE GRAVEDIGGER

289SWIMMERS

94HEM AND HAW

290HANDS

95DAISIES

291A SIDE STREET

96Richard Burton

292Jean Starr Untermeyer

97BLACK SHEEP

293HIGH TIDE

98Oliver Herford

294AUTUMN

99EARTH [15]

295SINFONIA DOMESTICA

100THE ELF AND THE DORMOUSE

296LAKE SONG

101Richard Hovey

297John Gould Fletcher

102AT THE CROSSROADS

298THE SWAN

103UNMANIFEST DESTINY

299LONDON NIGHTFALL

104LOVE IN THE WINDS

300DAWN

105A STEIN SONG

301LINCOLN [53]

106Madison Cawein

302THE SKATERS

107SNOW

303“ H. D. ”

108THE MAN HUNT

304OREAD

109PENURY

305PEAR TREE

110DESERTED

306HEAT

111Bert Leston Taylor

307LETHE

112CANOPUS

308William Rose Benét

113William Vaughn Moody

309MERCHANTS FROM CATHAY

114FROM “JETSAM”

310NIGHT [54]

115PANDORA’S SONG

311HOW TO CATCH UNICORNS

116ON A SOLDIER FALLEN IN THE PHILIPPINES

312John Hall Wheelock

117George Sterling

313SUNDAY EVENING IN THE COMMON

118THE BLACK VULTURE

314BEAUTY

119THE MASTER MARINER

315LOVE AND LIBERATION

120Edwin Arlington Robinson

316NIRVANA

121MINIVER CHEEVY

317Joyce Kilmer

122THE GIFT OF GOD

318TREES [55]

123THE MASTER

319MARTIN [56]

124AN OLD STORY

320Shaemas O Sheel

125RICHARD CORY

321THEY WENT FORTH TO BATTLE, BUT THEY ALWAYS FELL

126VAIN GRATUITIES

322Roy Helton

127THE DARK HILLS

323IN PASSING

128Edgar Lee Masters

324David Morton

129PETIT, THE POET

325SYMBOLS [57]

130LUCINDA MATLOCK

326OLD SHIPS

131ANNE RUTLEDGE

327Orrick Johns

132SILENCE [26]

328THE INTERPRETER

133Stephen Crane

329LITTLE THINGS

134I SAW A MAN

330Margaret Widdemer

135THE WAYFARER

331FACTORIES

136HYMN

332THE TWO DYINGS

137THE BLADES OF GRASS

333THE MODERN WOMAN TO HER LOVER

138Edwin Ford Piper

334Alan Seeger

139BINDLESTIFF

335“I HAVE A RENDEZVOUS WITH DEATH”

140SWEETGRASS RANGE

336Willard Wattles

141T. A. Daly

337THE BUILDER

142THE SONG OF THE THRUSH

338CREEDS

143MIA CARLOTTA

339T. S. Eliot

144BETWEEN TWO LOVES

340MORNING AT THE WINDOW

145Paul Laurence Dunbar

341FROM “THE LOVE SONG OF J. ALFRED PRUFROCK”

146THE TURNING OF THE BABIES IN THE BED

342PRELUDE

147A COQUETTE CONQUERED

343Conrad Aiken

148DISCOVERED

344CHANCE MEETINGS

149Guy Wetmore Carryl

345THE FULFILLED DREAM

150HOW JACK FOUND THAT BEANS MAY GO BACK ON A CHAP

346MIRACLES

151THE SYCOPHANTIC FOX AND THE GULLIBLE RAVEN

347MORNING SONG FROM “SENLIN”

152HOW A CAT WAS ANNOYED AND A POET WAS BOOTED

348Christopher Morley

153H. H. Knibbs

349QUICKENING

154THE VALLEY THAT GOD FORGOT

350Leslie Nelson Jennings

155ROLL A ROCK DOWN

351FRUSTRATE

156THE TRAIL-MAKERS

352Maxwell Bodenheim

157Anna Hempstead Branch

353POET TO HIS LOVE

158THE MONK IN THE KITCHEN

354OLD AGE

159WHILE LOVELINESS GOES BY

355DEATH

160Amy Lowell

356Edwin Curran

161SOLITAIRE

357AUTUMN

162MEETING-HOUSE HILL

358THE PAINTED HILLS OF ARIZONA

163A LADY [31]

359Edna St. Vincent Millay

164FREE FANTASIA ON JAPANESE THEMES

360GOD’S WORLD

165MADONNA OF THE EVENING FLOWERS

361RENASCENCE{See 1.}

166WIND AND SILVER

362PITY ME NOT

167Ridgely Torrence

363I SHALL GO BACK

168THE BIRD AND THE TREE

364THE PEAR TREE

169THE SON

365WILD SWANS

170Robert Frost

366Mary Carolyn Davies

171MENDING WALL

367THE DAY BEFORE APRIL

172THE TUFT OF FLOWERS

368THE APPLE TREE SAID

173THE DEATH OF THE HIRED MAN

369Winifred Welles

174GOOD-BYE AND KEEP COLD

370FROM A CHINESE VASE

175THE RUNAWAY

371HUMILIATION

176BIRCHES

372LOVE SONG FROM NEW ENGLAND

177FRAGMENTARY BLUE

373Herbert S. Gorman

178THE ONSET

374THE FANATIC

179William Ellery Leonard

375Babette Deutsch

180THE IMAGE OF DELIGHT

376THE DEATH OF A CHILD

181TO THE VICTOR

377IN A MUSEUM

182Sarah N. Cleghorn

378Alter Brody

183THE SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST

379A CITY PARK

184THE INCENTIVE

380SEARCHLIGHTS

185Carl Sandburg

381GHETTO TWILIGHT

186COOL TOMBS

382Stephen Vincent Benét

187FOG

383PORTRAIT OF A BOY

188FROM “SMOKE AND STEEL”

384Hilda Conkling

189BLUE ISLAND INTERSECTION

385WATER

190CLEAN CURTAINS

386HAY-COCK

191A. E. F.

387THE OLD BRIDGE

192NOCTURNE IN A DESERTED BRICKYARD

388I KEEP WONDERING

193GRASS

389A SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

194Adelaide Crapsey

390Analysis

195THREE CINQUAINS

391Reflection

196ON SEEING WEATHER-BEATEN TREES

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