American poets : from the Puritans to the present

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Puritans and deists : Puritan verse, Anne Bradstreet, Edward Taylor, Deists, Joel Barlow, Philip Freneau

Five New England poets : the shape of things to come, William Cullen Bryant, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes, James Russell Lowell, John Greenleaf Whittier

Sursum Corda : the poet as friend and aider, Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ecstasy in Concord and Salem, Henry David Thoreau, Jones Very

Transcendtal despair, Edgar Allan Poe

Signing for soul and body, Walt Whitman

Proud ephemeral, Emily Dickinson

Some lesser figures, J.G. Holland, Herman Melville, Sidney Lanier, Stephen Crane, William Vaughn Moody, Frederick Goddard Tuckerman, Trumbull Stickney

The idealist in extremis, Edwin Arlington Robinson

The strategic retreat, Robert Frost

Science and poetry : imagism

Some imagists, Amy Lowell, John Gould Fletcher, H.D., Marianne Moore

In the American grain, William Carlos Williams

Ideogram, or the method of science, Ezra Pound

Myth and memory, Thomas Stearns Eliot

The idea of order : fictive music, Wallace Stevens

Sic transit gloria : six famous poets, Vachel Lindsey, Edgar Lee Masters, Carl Sandburg, Sara Teasdale, Elinor Wylie, Edna St. Vincent Millay

Melodies of chaos, Robinson Jeffers, Conrad Aiken, Archibald MacLeish

The transcendtal and extraordinary : Hart Crane, E.E. Cummings

Irony and orthodoxy : agarian protest, John Crowe Ransom, Allen Tate, Robert Penn Warren

Centering in, Theodore Roethke, Robert Lowell, Karl Shapiro, Richard Wilbur

"The condition of true naming" : current trends : anti-modernist ideas, Theodore Roethke, James Dickey, Howard Nemerov, Robert Kelly

The legacy of Pound and Williams, Robert Kelly, Denise Levertov

Four poets in the Emerson-Whitman tradition, Robert Duncan, Denise Levertov, Robert Creeley, Robert Kelly

The presence of Whitman

The presence of Dickinson

Starting with Emerson