Part One The English Poets
The Medieval Period
Geoffrey Chaucer c. 1343-1400
Popular Ballads
The Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Century
Christopher Marlowe c. 1564-1593
William Shakespeare 1564-1616
Ben Johnson 1572-1637
John Donne c. 1572-1631
John Milton 1608-1674
Andrew Marvell 1621-1678
The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century
Alexander Pope 1688-1744
Thomas Gray 1716-1771
The Romantic Period
William Blake 1757-1827
Robert Burns 1759-1796
William Wordsworth 1770-1850
Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772-1834
George Gordon, Lord Byron 1788-1824
Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792-1822
John Keats 1795-1821
The Victorian Age
Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1809-1892
Robert Browning 1812-1889
Matthew Arnold 1822-1888
The Twentieth Century
Thomas Hardy 1840-1928
William Butler Yeats 1865-1939
W. H. Auden 1907-1973
Part Two The American Poets
Early American Poetry
Philip Freneau 1752-1832
William Cullen Bryant 1794-1878
American Poetry 1826-1914
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807-1882
Edgar Allan Poe 1809 1849
Walt Whitman 1819-1892
Emily Dickinson 1830-1886
American Poetry After 1914
Robert Frost 1874-1963
Carl Sandburg 1878-1967
Wallace Stevens 1879-1955
William Carlos Williams 1883-1963
Ezra Pound 1885-1972
T. S. Eliot 1888-1965
E. E. Cummings 1894-1962
Langston Hughes 1902-1967
Robert Lowell 1917-1977
Bibliography and Online Resources