What would be the first few names that come to mind?
2006-10-31 01:43:37 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, and T.S. Eliot.
2006-10-31 02:00:16 · answer #1 · answered by bot_parody 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, that all depends on the time period. in no particular order of importance:
Colonial American Lit: Phillis Wheatley, Anne Bradstreet
Pre Civil War: Walt Whitman
Post Civil War: Emily Dickinson
Modernists: TS Eliot, Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams
Harlem Renaissance: Langston Hughes, Arna Bontemps, Countee Cullen
Post World War II: Elizabeth Bishop, Gwendolyn Brooks, Robert Frost, Robert Lowell
Contemporary (this is really one for personal taste): John Ashbery, Louise Gluck, W.S. Merwin, Frank O'Hara
2006-10-31 01:55:17 · answer #2 · answered by idler103 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Walt Whitman
2006-10-31 01:48:58 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ezra Pound
2006-10-31 03:18:41 · answer #4 · answered by ThirdEyeBlind 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
robert frost
Edgar Allan Poe
2006-10-31 02:11:19 · answer #5 · answered by sista! 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋