Modern American Poetry: The new world finds a new voice

The early-twentieth-century remaking of American verse — Frost, Williams, Teasdale, Millay, Sandburg, and the moderns who broke the old molds.

In this collection

• Putting in the Seed
• In Memoriam F. o. S
• This should be Simple
• April
• Two Minds
• I Woke in the Night and Heard the Wind
• Metric Figure
• Oh, Oh, you will be Sorry for that Word!
• Read History: Thus Learn how Small a Space
• The Suicide
• Postlude
• Summer, be Seen no More
• The Goose-Girl
• The Great Figure
• Summer Song
• Epitaph
• The Old Men
• Second April: PRAYER TO PERSEPHONE
• English Sparrows
• Women have Loved Before
• Autumn Dusk
• The Axe-Helve
• May Night
• Leaves
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