American poet
Stateside literary artist
An American poet is a poet who is American by nationality or association.
The term is a descriptor rather than a fixed category, applied to figures from Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson to contemporary voices: Robert Frost is the quintessential American poet for many readers.
- TranscendentalismIntuition-based American idealist movement
- Jazz Age1920s American cultural heyday
- Harlem RenaissanceBlack arts explosion, 1920s
- ModernismBreak from traditional forms
- Leaves of GrassWhitman's expansive verse collection
Allen Ginsberg · Emily Dickinson · Edgar Allan Poe · Carl Sandburg · Maya Angelou · Langston Hughes · Walt Whitman · Beat Generation · Robert Frost · Sylvia Plath · confessional · MFA · Great Depression · New England · Frost · road less traveled · leaves · Brooklyn