For a project on American poetry, read one early, middle, and modern poet. Ask yourself how American poetry has developed (changed/stayed the same) over time. Choose from among these poets or suggest one to me:

Early

• Anne Bradstreet
• William Cullen Bryant
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• Phillis Wheatley
• John Greenleaf Whittier

Middle

• Emily Dickinson
• Walt Whitman

Modern

• Robert Frost
• Langston Hughes
• Yusef Komunyakaa
• Claude McKay
• Sylvia Plath