Volume I: Modern Poetry
These poets are represented in the volume (listed chronologically by birth date, as in the book):
- Walt Whitman
- Emily Dickinson
- Thomas Hardy
- Gerard Manley Hopkins
- A. E. Housman
- William Butler Yeats
- Rudyard Kipling
- Edgar Lee Masters
- Edwin Arlington Robinson
- Gertrude Stein
- Amy Lowell
- Robert Frost
- Carl Sandburg
- Edward Thomas
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- Wallace Stevens
- Mina Loy
- William Carlos Williams
- Elinor Wylie
- D. H. Lawrence
- Ezra Pound
- Siegfried Sassoon
- Hilda Doolittle ("H.D.")
- Robinson Jeffers
- Edwin Muir
- Edith Sitwell
- Marianne Moore
- John Crowe Ransom
- T. S. Eliot
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- Ivor Gurney
- Claude McKay
- Isaac Rosenberg
- Edna St. Vincent Millay
- Archibald MacLeish
- Hugh MacDiarmid
- Wilfred Owen
- Dorothy Parker
- Charles Reznikoff
- E. E. Cummings
- Jean Toomer
- Robert Graves
- David Jones
- Austin Clarke
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- Louise Bogan
- Melvin Tolson
- Hart Crane
- Allen Tate
- Basil Bunting
- Yvor Winters
- Laura Riding
- Sterling Brown
- Langston Hughes
- Stevie Smith
- Lorine Niedecker
- Countee Cullen
- Louis Zukofsky
- Richard Eberhart
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- C. Day-Lewis
- Patrick Kavanagh
- Robert Penn Warren
- Stanley Kunitz
- Kenneth Rexroth
- John Betjeman
- William Empson
- W. H. Auden
- A. D. Hope
- Louis MacNeice
- George Oppen
- Theodore Roethke
- Stephen Spender
- Keith Douglas
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