METAPHYSICAL POETRY (English and Continental poets of the 17th century)
John Donne
“A Valediction Forbidding Mourning”
“The Sun Rising”
“Death Be Not Proud – Holy Sonnet X”
“Woman’s Constancy”
“Love’s Alchemy”
George Herbert
“Easter Wings”
“The Collar”
“Jordan (I)”
“Love (III)”
“The Windows”
Andrew Marvell
“The Mower’s Song”
“The Mower to the Glo-Worms”
“The Mower Against Gardens”
“The Garden”
“To His Coy Mistress”
AUGUSTANS (18th century English Poetry)
John Dryden
“MacFlecknoe”
“Marriage a-la-mode”
“Absalom and Achitophel”
Alexander Pope
“The Rape of the Lock”
“Windsor Forest”
“Epitaph on Sir Isaac Newton”
(related Prose & Plays)
Jonathan Swift
Gulliver’s Travels
John Gay
A Beggar’s Opera
Alexander Pope
“Essay on Criticism”
(1572 – 1631)
(1593 – 1633)
(1621 – 1678)
(1631 – 1700)
(1688 – 1744)
(1667 – 1745)
(1685 – 1732)
ROMANTIC POETRY 1789 - 1870 (and American Transcendental [1830 – 1860])
William Wordsworth (Eng.)
“I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”
“Composed Upon Westminster Bridge Sept. 3, 1802”
“Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey”
“My Heart Leaps Up When I Behold”
“Lucy”
Percy Shelley (Eng.)
“Ozymandias”
“Ode to the West Wind”
“Adonais—An Elegy on the Death of John Keats”
“The Cloud”
“Hymn to Intellectual Beauty”
John Keats (Eng.)
“Ode on a Grecian Urn”
“When I Have Fears that I May Cease to Be”
“To Autumn”
“La Belle Dame Sans Merci”
“Ode to a Nightingale”
William Blake (Eng.)
“The Tiger”
“The Lamb”
“A Poison Tree”
“The Sick Rose”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (Amer.) “Ode to Beauty”
“The World-Soul”
“Song of Nature”
Walt Whitman (Amer.)
“When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer”
“A Noiseless Patient Spider”
“Crossing Brooklyn Ferry”
“There Was a Child Went Forth”
“Song of the Open Road”
(1770 – 1850)
(1792 – 1822)
(1975 – 1821)
(1757 – 1827)
(1803 – 1882)
(1819 – 1892)
(Related European Prose)
Sir Walter Scott
Ivanhoe
(Related American Prose)
Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Scarlet Letter
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The Poet,” an essay that inspired Whitman to become a poet
Henry David Thoreau
“Walking”
THE SYMBOLISTS (late 19th – early 20th century)
Charles Baudelaire (French)
“Spleen”
“Harmonie du soir (Harmonies of Evening)”
“Correspondances (Correspondences)”
Stephane Mallarme (French)
“L’Spres-midi d’un faune (The Afternoon of a Faun)””
“Soupir (Sigh)”
“Salut (Salutation)”
Paul Verlaine (French)
“Il pleure dans mon couer (It Rains in My Heart)”
“Chanson d’automne (Autumn Song)
“Langueur (Langour)”
Arthur Rimbaud (French)
”Le bateau ivre (The Drunken Boat)”
“Voyelles (Vowels)”
Oscar Wilde
“Chanson”
“Impression du Matin”
“Harmony”
W. B. Yeats
“The Lake Isle of Innisfree”
“Towards Break of Day”
“Broken Dreams”
“Leda and The Swan”
“Sailing to Byzantium”
Arthur Symons
“White Heliotrope”
“Colour Studies”
“Perfume”
T. S. Eliot
“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”
“Ash Wednesday”
(1771 – 1832)
(1804 – 1864)
(1817 – 1862)
(1821 - 1867)
(1842 – 1898)
(1844 – 1896)
(1854 – 1891)
(1854 – 1900)
(1865 – 1939)
(1865 – 1945)
(1888 - 1965)
Related Symbolist Prose
Joris-Karl Huysmans
Oscar Wilde
MODERNISM 1910 - 1965
Wallace Stephens
William Carlos Williams
H. D. (Hilda Doolittle)
Marianne Moore
T. S. Eliot
e. e. cummings
(Related Modernist Prose)
James Joyce
Virginia Woolf
William Faulkner
Joseph Conrad
Kate Chopin
A Rebours (Against the Grain)
The Picture of Dorian Gray
(1848 – 1907)
(1854 – 1900)
“Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird”
“The Snowman”
“Peter Quince at the Clavier”
“Anecdote of the Jar”
“Red Wheelbarrow”
“This is Just To Say”
“Danse Russe”
“Spring to All”
“The Great Figure”
“The Yachts”
“Desert Music”
“The Descent”
“Star Wheels in Purple”
“Helen”
“Heat”
“Poetry”
“Baseball and Writing”
“To a Snail”
“Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”
“Ash Wednesday”
“anyone lived in a pretty how town”
“next to of course god america i”
“spring is like a perhaps hand”
“i sing of Olaf glad and big”
(1879 – 1955)
A portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Mrs. Dalloway
As I Lay Dying
Heart of Darkness
The Awakening
(1882 - 1941)
(1882 – 1941)
(1897 – 1962)
(1857 – 1924)
(1851 – 1904)
(1883 – 1963)
(1886 – 1961)
(1887 - 1972)
(1888 – 1965)
(1894 – 1962)
THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE (1918 – 1937)
Paul Laurence Dunbar
“Frederick Douglass”
“Sympathy”
“We Wear the Mask”
Claude McKay
“If We Must Die
“The White House”
“The Tropics of New York”
Langston Hughes
“I, Too, Sing America”
“The Negro Speaks of Rivers”
“Theme for English B”
“Montage of a Dream Deferred”
Countee Cullen
“Incident”
“For a Lady I Know”
“Yet Do I Marvel”
(related Prose)
Zora Neale Hurston
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Nella Larson
Passing
Richard Wright
Native Son
Ralph Ellison
Invisible Man
POSTMODERNISM 1965 - Today
Richard Brautigan
“All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace”
Charles Simic
“The World Doesn’t Eng”
Rita Dove
Thomas and Beulah (A book of poems)
THE BEATS 1945 - 1965
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
“A Coney Island of the Mind”
“The Changing Light”
“Vast Confusion”
“Wild Dreams of a New Beginning”
Allen Ginsberg
“Howl”
“America”
“A Supermarket in California”
Gregory Corso
“Marriage”
“Bomb”
“The Mad Yak”
(1872 – 1906)
(1889 – 1948)
(1902 – 1967)
(1903 – 1946)
(1891 – 1960)
(1891 – 1964)
(1908 – 1960)
(1913 – 1994)
(1935 – 1984)
(1938 - )
(1952 - )
(1919 -
)
(1926 – 1997)
(1930 – 2001)
Gary Snyder
“Four Poems for Robin”
“For All”
“Hay for the Horses”
(Related Prose)
William S. Burroughs
Naked Lunch
Jack Kerouac
On the Road
CONFESSIONAL POETS (late 1950’s and early 1960’s)
John Berryman
“Dream Song 1”
“Dream Song 4”
“Dream Song 29”
Robert Lowell
“Skunk Hour”
“For the Union Dead”
“Memories of West Street and Lepke”
“Home After Three Months Away”
Anne Sexton
“Wanting to Die”
“The Truth the Dead Know”
“For My Lover, Returning to his Wife”
Sylvia Plath
“Daddy”
“Lady Lazarus”
“Balloons”
“Ariel”
(related Prose)
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
NEW YORK SCHOOL OF POETS (1960’s)
Barbara Guest
“The Blue Stairs”
“Wild Gardens Overlooked by Night Lights”
“Sound and Structure”
“Echoes”
Kenneth Koch
“One Train May Hide Another”
“Talking to Petrizia”
“To Various Persons Talked to All at Once”
Variations on a Theme by William Carlos Williams”
Frank O’Hara
“In Memory of My Feelings”
“The Day Lady Died”
“A Step Away From Them”
“Lines to a Depressed Friend”
(1930 -
)
(1914 – 1997)
(1922 – 1969)
(1914 – 1972)
(1917 – 1977)
1928 - 1967
(1932 – 1963)
1920 – 2006)
(1925 – 2002)
1926 – 1966)
“The Painter”
“The Instruction Manual”
“Daffy Duck in Hollywood”
“The New Higher”
THE BLACK ARTS MOVEMENT (1965 – 1975)
Gwendolyn Brooks
“The Bean Eaters”
“We Real Cool”
“The Lovers of the Poor”
“The Mother”
Amiri Baraka (a.k.a. Leroi
“Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note”
Jones)
“Black Art”
“Ka’Ba”
“In the Funk World”
Sonia Sanchez
“Ballad”
“Malcolm”
“I Have Walked a Long Time”
“For Sweet Honey in the Rock”
Ntozake Shange
“My Father is a Retired Magician”
“For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is
Enuf”
BLACK MOUNTAIN POETS (1940’s – 1950’s)
Charles Olson
“Excerpts from The Maximus Poems
Denise Levertov
“The Mutes”
“In California During the Gulf War”
“When We Look Up”
Robert Creeley
“Age”
“For Love”
“A Wicker Basket”
“America”
John Ashbery
(b. 1927)
(1917 – 2000)
(b. 1934)
(b. 1934)
(b. 1948)
(1910 – 1970)
(1923 – 1997)
(1926 – 2005)
OTHER IMPORTANT REPRESENTATIVE POEMS AND POETS
Emily Dickenson
“Because I could not stop for death”
“I heard a fly buzz when I died”
“Tell all the truth but tell it slant”
“I measure every grief I meet”
Robert Frost
“Out, Out”
“Birches”
“The Death of the Hired Man”
“Mending Wall”
“Design”
“Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”
W. H. Auden
“As I Walked Out One Evening”
“In Memory of W. B. Yeats”
“The Unknown Citizen”
“Musee des Beaux Arts”
Elizabeth Bishop
“In the Waiting Room”
“Filling Station”
“At the Fishhouses”
“One Art”
“The Moose”
Adrienne Rich
“Diving into the Wreck”
“North American Time”
“Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers”
“Miracle Ice Cream”
Seamus Heaney
“Digging”
“The Harvest Bow”
(1830 – 1886)
(1874 – 1963)
(1907 – 1973)
(1911 – 1979)
(b. 1929)
(b. 1939)
Chapter 6: An Overview of Literary Movements
from
Cracking the AP English Literature & Composition Exam
2015 Edition (The Princeton Review)