American poetry
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 Title page, second (posthumous) edition of Anne Bradstreet's poems, 1678 |
American poetry, the poetry of the United States, arose first as efforts by colonists to add their voices to English poetry in the 17th century, well before the constitutional unification of the thirteen colonies (although before this, a strong oral tradition often likened to poetry existed among Native American societies). Unsurprisingly, most of the early colonists' work relied on contemporary British models of poetic form, diction, and theme. However, in the 19th century, a distinctive American idiom began to emerge. By the later part of that century, when Walt Whitman was winning an enthusiastic audience abroad, poets from the United States had begun to take their place at the forefront of the English-language avant-garde.
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| Poet biographies at the Academy of American Poets Poet biographies at the Academy of American Poets www.poets.org/poets/index.cfm - Web |
| Poet biographies at the Electronic Poetry Centre Poet biographies at the Electronic Poetry Centre epc.buffalo.edu/authors/ - Web |
| Various anthologies of American verse at Bartleby.... Various anthologies of American verse at Bartleby.com www.bartleby.com/verse/ - Web |
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