Foreword

1. Wallace Stevens
The False and True Sublime
Souvenirs and Prophecies
Stevens and Keats's "To Autumn"
Apollo's Harsher Songs

2. Marianne Moore

3. T. S. Eliot
The Waste Land

4. Robert Penn Warren
Audubon: A Vision

5. W.H. Auden
City Without Walls

6. Elizabeth Bishop
Domestication, Domesticity, and the Otherworldly

7. Randall Jarrell
The Complete Poems
The Third Book of Criticism

8. John Berryman
Dream Songs

9. Robert Lowell
A Difficult Grandeur
"Ulysses, Circe, Penelope"
Day by Day
Pudding Stone
Last Days and Last Poems

Howard Nemerov
Collected Poems

Frank O'Hara
The Virtue of the Alterable

Allen Ginsberg
Planet News, 1961-1967
The Fall of America

James Merrill
Braving the Elements
Divine Comedies
Mirabell: Books of Number

W.S. Merwin
The Miner's Pale Children

Adrienne Rich
Diving into the Wreck
Of Woman Born

Sylvia Plath
Crossing the Water

Charles Wright
The Transcendent "I"

Dave Smith
"Oh I Admire and Sorrow"

Louise Glück

Broadsides
Good Black Poems, One by One

Ammons, Berryman, Cummings

Eight Poets

Ten Poets

Books Discussed