For an extensive list of American poetry readings, ordered chronologically, please refer to Writing the Nation: A Concise Introduction to American Literature 1865-present by Berke, Bleil, & Cofer, sourced from University of North Georgia Press, CC-BY-SA.
Included Readings
The following examples of literature appear in this textbook
- 7.1: Romantic Poets
- 7.2: Emily Dickinson
- 7.3: Percy Bysshe Shelley
- 7.4: Poet - William Wordsworth
- 7.5: Wordsworth, William "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" (1807)
- 7.6: Robert Frost
- 7.7: Walt Whitman
- 7.8: Featured Period - The Harlem Renaissance
- 7.9: Cavendish, Margaret "The Hunting of the Hare" (1653)
- 7.10: Crane, Stephen "In the Desert" (1895)
- 7.11: Burns, Robert "To a Mouse" (1785)
- 7.12: Behn, Aphra. Two Poems. (1688)
- 7.13: Dong-joo, Yoon. Selected Poems from Sky, Wind, and Stars. Trans. Kyung-nyun Kay Richards and Steffen F. Richards (2003)
- 7.14: Hill, Sean "Distance Between Desires" from Dangerous Goods (2013)
- 7.15: Hughes, Langston "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" (1921)
- 7.16: Keats, John. Selected Poems. (1819)
- 7.17: Marlowe, Christopher "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love" (1599)
- 7.18: Moore, Alice Ruth "Amid the Roses" (1895)
- 7.19: Nguyen, Hieu Minh. "The Study" and "White Boy Time Machine- Override" (2018)
- 7.20: Raleigh, Walter "The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd" (1600)
- 7.21: Robinson, Edwin Arlington "Richard Cory" (1897)
- 7.22: Wheatley, Phillis. Selections from Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (1773)
- 7.23: Williams, William Carlos. Selected poems (1913-1923).
- 7.24: Tennyson, Alfred Lord "The Lady of Shalott" (1832)
- 7.25: Allen Gingsbert- Beat Poet
- 7.26: Athena Kashyap
- 7.27: Sylvia Plath
- 7.28: The Book of Songs- China (before 551 B.C.E.)
- 7.29: 7.29 Pound, Ezra. Selected poems. (1885-1972)
Supplemental Readings
These linked readings are not included in this textbook due to copyright permissions and/or space constraints.