Critical survey of poetry

Contains profiles of notable Latin American poets, including achievements, biographies, and analyses.

Profiles twenty-two visionary poets, including William Blake, Hart Crane, Pablo Neruda, Rainer Maria Rilke, and William Butler Yeats, and provides a brief biography of each poet and a list of their works and achievements.

Profiles twenty-five war poets, including a brief biography of each poet and a list of their works and achievements, including Rupert Brooke, Guillaume Apollinaire, and Chinua Achebe.

Profiles twenty poets who wrote about gay and lesbian themes, including a brief biography of each poet and a list of their works and achievements.

Profiles the lives and work of twenty-four African American poets, including Maya Angelou, Langston Hughes, Alice Walker, and more.

Profiles nineteen green movement poets, including Ralph Waldo Emerson, W.S. Merwin, Gary Snyder, Walt Whitman, and William Butler Yeats, and provides a brief biography of each poet and a list of their works and achievements.

Profiles nineteen Italian poets, including Giovanni Boccaccio, Dante, Cesare Pavese, Petrarch, and Giuseppe Ungaretti, and provides a brief biography of each poet and a list of their works and achievements.

Profiles twenty-three nature poets, including a brief biography of each poet and a list of their works and achievements.

Profiles twenty-six Surrealist poets, including Louis Aragon, Andr? Breton, Jean Cocteau, Pablo Neruda, and James Tate, and provides a brief biography of each poet and a list of their works and achievements.

Profiles seventeen Romantic poets, including William Blake, Lord Byron, and John Keats, and provides a brief biography of each poet and a list of their works and achievements.