Scribners Poets for Students

by Ron Padgett

• ISBN13: 9780684805924
• ISBN10: 0684805928
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-04-01
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster Trade

Summary

Alphabetically arranged articles on 107 poets from around the world, accompanied by fifteen essays on various genres and schools of poetry.

Table of Contents

VOLUME 3
Percy Bysshe Shelley	1	(10)
Charles Simic	11	(12)
Gary Snyder	23	(12)
William Stafford	35	(10)
Gertrude Stein	45	(12)
Wallace Stevens	57	(10)
May Swenson	67	(14)
James Tate	81	(12)
Alfred Lord Tennyson	93	(10)
Dylan Thomas	103	(12)
Tu Fu	115	(10)
Virgil	125	(10)
Walt Whitman	135	(14)
Richard Wilbur	149	(12)
William Carlos Williams	161	(14)
William Wordsworth	175	(12)
James Wright	187	(10)
William Butler Yeats	197	(10)
Thematic Essays
Indigenous and Tribal Poetry	207	(10)
Troubadours	217	(8)
Tudor and Elizabethan Poetry	225	(14)
Nineteenth-Century Romantic and Symbolist Poetry	239	(14)
Twentieth-Century Modernist Poetry	253	(24)
The New American Poetry	277	(18)
Native American Poetry	295	(10)
Harlem Renaissance Poetry	305	(12)
Spanish Poetry	317	(8)
Spanish American Poetry	325	(8)
Asian American Poetry	333	(12)
Calligrammatic and Concrete Poetry	345	(6)
Performance Poetry	351	(10)
Some Basic Poetic Forms	361	(20)
Advice on Writing Poetry	381	(6)
Contributors	387	(12)
Appendix 1: Poetic Meter	399	(2)
Appendix 2: Lists of Major Prizewinners	401	(6)
Illustration Acknowledgments	407	(2)
Text Acknowledgments	409	(12)
Index	421