v. 1. Modern poetry: Walt Whitman
Emily Dickinson - Thomas Hardy
Gerald Manley Hopkins
William Butler Yeats
Rudyard Kiplling
Edgar Lee Masters
Edwin Arlington Robinson
James Weldon Johnson
Gertrude Stein
Amy Lowell
Robert Frost
Carl Sandburg
Edward Thomas
Mina Loy
William Carlos Williams
Elinor Wylie
D.H. Lawrence
Ezra Pound
Siegfried Sassoon
H.D.
Robinson Jeffers
Edwin Muir
Edith Sitwell
Marianne Moore
John Crowe Ransom
T.S. Eliot
Ivor Gurney
Claude McKay
Isaac Rosenberg
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Archibald MacLeish
Hugh MacDiarmid
Wilfred Owen
Dorothy Parker
Charles Raznikoff
E.E. Cummings
Jean Toomer
Robert Graves
David Jones
Austin Clarke
Louise Bogan
Melvin Tolson
Hart Crane
Allen Tate
Basil Bunting
Yvor Winters
Laura Riding
Sterling Brown
Langston Hughes
Stevie Smith
Lorine Niedecker
Countee Cullen
Louis Zukofsky
Richard Eberhart
C. Day Lewis
Patrick Kavanagh
Robert Penn Warren
Stanley Kunitz
Kenneth Rexroth
John Betjeman
William Empson
W.H. Auden
A.D. Hope
Louise MacNiece
George Oppen
Theodore Roethke
Stephen Spender
Keith Douglas.

v. 2. Contemporary poetry: Charles Olson
Elizabeth Bishop
May Swenson
Robert Hayden
Karl Shapiro
Delmore Schwartz
Muriel Rukeyser
William Stafford
Randall Jarrell
John Berryman
Dylan Thomas
Judith Wright
P.K. Page
Robert Lowell
Gwendolyn Brooks
Robert Duncan
William Meredith
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Louise Bennett
Howard Nemerov
Amy Clampitt
Richard Wilbur
Kingsley Amis
Donald Davie
Philip Larkin
Anthony Hecht
James Dickey
Alan Dugan
Louis Simpson o
Denise Levertov
Richard Hugo
Kenneth Koch
Maxine Kumin
Donald Justice
W.D. Snodgrass
A.R. Ammons
James Merrill
Robert Creeley
Allen Ginsberg
David Wadoner
Frank O'Hara
Robert Bly
Charles Tomlinson
Galway Kinnell
John Ashbery
W.S. Merwin
James Wright
Philip Levine
Thomas Kinsella
Anne Sexton
A.K. Ramanujan
Richard Howard
Adrienne Rich
Thom Gunn
John Hollander
Derek Walcott
Gary Snyder
Kamau Brathwaite
Christopher Okigbo
Ted Hughes
Okot p'Bitket
Geoffrey Hill
Sylvia Plath
Audre Lorde
Mark Strand
Wole Soyinka
Amiri Baraka
Charles Wright
Mary Oliver
Marge Pierce
Lucille Clifton
June Jordan
Tony Harrison
Susan Howe
Michael S. Harper
Charles Simic
Les Murray
Seamus Heaney
Frank Bidart
Michael Longley
Margaret Atwood
Eunice de Souza
Robert Pinsky
Robert Hass
Lyn Hejinian
Derek Mahon
Sharon Olds
Marilyn Hacker
Dave Smith
Louise Gluck
Michael Palmer
Michael Ondaatje
James Tate
Eavan Boland
Craig Raine
Norman Dubie
Yusef Komunyakaa
Lorna Goodison
Ai
Leslie Marmon Silko
Agha Shahid Ali
James Fenton
Grace Nichols
Charles Bernstein
Carolyn Forche
Jorie Graham
Anne Carson
Medbh McGuckian
Joy Harjo
Paul Muldoon
Gary Soto
Rita Dove
Alberto Rios o
Mark Doty
Thylias Moss
Louise Erdrich
Lorna Dee Cervantes
Marilyn Chin
Cathy Song
Carol Ann Duffy
Dionisio D. Martinez
Henry Cole
Li-Young Lee
Sherman Alexie.