Fifteen Modern American Poets

by George P. Elliott

Contributors Winfield Townley Scott, Robert Penn Warren, Elizabeth Bishop, Richard Eberhart, Theodore Roethke, Delmore Schwartz, Randall Jarrell, Josephine Miles, Muriel Rukeyser, Richard Wilbur, James Schevill, Howard Nemerov, Robert Lowell, Hyam Plutzik, and Karl Shapiro.

Genres: Poetry

Paperback

First published January 1, 1956

Reviews

[Jim Manis · Rating 3 out of 5]

Interesting to read some of the leading poetry of the 1950s and early 1960s, but not as enjoyable as I might have wished. I find what has been published these past 25 years to be more entertaining, enlightening, and less strained. I recall one definition I was provided in the 1970s that poetry was "heightened language," and this text illustrates that. I could feel the strain as these fifteen poets lifted their lyrics up like Olympic weight lifters pushing their weighted bars above their heads.