The Columbia history of American poetry / Jay Parini, editor, Brett C. Millier, associate editor.

Anne Bradstreet and Edward Taylor / Francis Murphy
Early African American poetry / Carolivia Herron
The epic in the nineteenth century / John McWilliams
Longfellow in the aftermath of modernism / Dana Gioia
The transcendentalist poets / Lawrence Buell
Emily Dickinson / Cynthia Griffin Wolff
Walt Whitman / Donald Pease
Edgar Allan Poe / Jeffrey Meyers
Lowell, Teasedale, Wylie, Millay, and Bogan / Jeanne Larsen
Women poets and the emergence of modernism / Margaret Dickie
Robert Frost and the poetry of survival / Jay Parini
Ezra Pound's imagist aesthetics : Lustra to Mauberley / J. T. Barbarese
T. S. Eliot / William Pritchard
Marianne Moore and Elizabeth Bishop / Jeredith Merrin
Wallace Stevens / Helen Vendler
William Carlos Williams / Christopher MacGowan
Hart Crane's difficult passage / J. T. Barbarese
The poetry of the Harlem renaissance / Arnold Rampersad
Warren, with Ransom and Tate / Patricia Wallace
American Auden / Claude J. Summers
The twentieth-century long poem / Lynn Keller
Public music / W. S. DiPiero
Beat poetry and the San Francisco poetry renaissance / Ann Charters
John Berryman, Theodore Roethke, and the elegy / Lea Baechler
What was confessisonal poetry? / Diane Wood Middlebrook
The postconfessional lyric / Gregory Orr
The black arts poets / William W. Cook
Nature's refrain in American poetry / John Elder
Native American poetry / Lucy Maddox
James Merrill and John Ashbery / John Shoptaw
The visionary poetics of Philip Levine and Charles Wright / Edward Hirsch.