This collection of poetry features thirteen American poets who lived in the first half of the twentieth century. Robert Frost, Langston Hughes, Carl Sandburg, Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, Ezra Pound, H.D., Marianne Moore, T. S. Eliot, Edna St. Vincent Millay, E. E. Cummings, and Louise Bogan are featured. Includes biographical information, historical background, poetry analysis, and several poems by each writer to introduce readers to a range of poems from this exciting era.