Bibliograph

The poets laureate anthology, edited and with introductions by Elizabeth Hun Schmidt ; foreword by Billy Collins

Type

Label

The poets laureate anthology, edited and with introductions by Elizabeth Hun Schmidt ; foreword by Billy Collins

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

portraits

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The poets laureate anthology

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

449865156

Responsibility statement

edited and with introductions by Elizabeth Hun Schmidt ; foreword by Billy Collins

Summary

Poems by each of the forty-three poets who have been named our nation's Poet Laureate since the post (originally called Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress) was established in 1937

Table Of Contents

2010- and 1999-2000: W.S. Merwin -- 2008-2010: Kay Ryan -- 2007-2008: Charles Simic -- 2006-2007: Donald Hall -- 2004-2006: Ted Kooser -- 2003-2004: Louise Glück -- 2001-2003: Billy Collins -- 2000-2001 and 1974-1976: Stanley Kunitz -- 1997-2000: Robert Pinsky -- 1995-1997: Robert Hass -- 1993-1995: Rita Dove -- 1992-1993: Mona Van Duyn -- 1991-1992: Joseph Brodsky -- 1990-1991: Mark Strand -- 1988-1990 and 1963-1964: Howard Nemerov -- 1987-1988: Richard Wilbur -- 1986-1987 and 1944-1945: Robert Penn Warren -- 1985-1986: Gwendolyn Brooks -- 1984-1985: Robert Fitzgerald -- 1982-1984: Anthony Hecht -- 1981-1982: Maxine Kumin -- 1978-1980: William Meredith -- 1976-1978: Robert Hayden --1973-1974: Daniel Hoffman --1971-1973: Josephine Jacobsen -- 1970-1971: William Stafford -- 1968-1970: William Jay Smith -- 1966-1968: James Dickey -- 1965-1966: Stephen Spender -- 1964-1965 and 1984-1985: Reed Whittemore -- 1961-1963: Louis Untermeyer -- 1959-1961: Richard Eberhart -- 1958-1959: Robert Frost -- 1956-1958: Randall Jarrell -- 1952: William Carlos Williams -- 1950-1952: Conrad Aiken -- 1949-1950: Elizabeth Bishop -- 1948-1949: Léonie Adams -- 1947-1948: Robert Lowell -- 1946-1947: Karl Shapiro -- 1945-1946: Louise Bogan -- 1943-1944: Allen Tate -- 1937-1941: Joseph Auslander

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