poetry, modern

A selection of essays written during the last five years on the importance and vitality of poetry.

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 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 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.

Presents interviews with twelve significant contemporary poets, including Seamus Heaney, Donald Hall, Rita Dove, and Bei Dao, about their lives and their craft.

A collection of twemtieth-century poems, each read by its author.