American Literature: Three Books Project

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Genre: Poetry

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
Updated January 10, 2009.