Part One The English Poets The Medieval Period Geoffrey Chaucer c. 1343-1400 Popular Ballads The Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Century Christopher Marlowe c. 1564-1593 William Shakespeare 1564-1616 Ben Johnson 1572-1637 John Donne c. 1572-1631 John Milton 1608-1674 Andrew Marvell 1621-1678 The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century Alexander Pope 1688-1744 Thomas Gray 1716-1771 The Romantic Period William Blake 1757-1827 Robert Burns 1759-1796 William Wordsworth 1770-1850 Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772-1834 George Gordon, Lord Byron 1788-1824 Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792-1822 John Keats 1795-1821 The Victorian Age Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1809-1892 Robert Browning 1812-1889 Matthew Arnold 1822-1888 The Twentieth Century Thomas Hardy 1840-1928 William Butler Yeats 1865-1939 W. H. Auden 1907-1973 Part Two The American Poets Early American Poetry Philip Freneau 1752-1832 William Cullen Bryant 1794-1878 American Poetry 1826-1914 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807-1882 Edgar Allan Poe 1809 1849 Walt Whitman 1819-1892 Emily Dickinson 1830-1886 American Poetry After 1914 Robert Frost 1874-1963 Carl Sandburg 1878-1967 Wallace Stevens 1879-1955 William Carlos Williams 1883-1963 Ezra Pound 1885-1972 T. S. Eliot 1888-1965 E. E. Cummings 1894-1962 Langston Hughes 1902-1967 Robert Lowell 1917-1977 Bibliography and Online Resources