American Poets, from the Puritans to the Present

affirmation American poetry Amy Lowell beauty believe better Boston called century Crane critics Cummings darkness death Denise Levertov Dickinson divine dream early Eliot Emerson Emersonian Emily Dickinson essay experience expressed Ezra Pound faith feel Frost haiku Hart Crane Hawthorne heart hope human ideal ideas images imagination Imagist Jeffers Karl Shapiro kind later less light lines literary Lowell meaning mind modern mystic nature never once perhaps philosophic poem poet poet's poetic Pound prose Puritan reader reality religion religious revealed Robert Frost Robinson Roethke Roethke's romantic seems sense Shapiro simply Song soul speak speaker spirit stanza statement Stevens suggest sure Taylor theme things Thoreau thought tion Titmouse tradition transcendent Transcendental true truth verse vision volume W. T. Stace Wallace Stevens Whitman Whittier William Carlos Williams Williams words writing written wrote York