Famous American poets have shaped global literary traditions with their unique styles and voices. Figures like Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, and Robert Frost revolutionized poetry through free verse, introspection, and vivid nature imagery. Later, modernists like T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound, followed by confessional poets Sylvia Plath and Allen Ginsberg, challenged conventions, addressing themes of identity, isolation, and societal change.
17th Century American Poet: Edward Taylor
17th Century American Poet: Thomas Hooker
17th Century American Poet: Richard Mather
17th Century American Poet: Increase Mather
17th Century American Poet: John Cotton
17th Century American Poet: William Bradford
11 Famous American Poets of the 17th Century
17th Century American Poet: George Fox
17th Century American Poet: Roger Williams
17th Century American Poet: Michael Wigglesworth
17th Century American Poet: William Bradford
17th Century American Poet: Increase Mather
17th Century American Poet: George Fox
17th Century American Poet: John Winthrop
17th Century American Poet: Thomas Hooker
17th Century American Poet: Richard Mather
17th Century American Poet: John Cotton
17th Century American Poet: Roger Williams
17th Century American Poet: Ebenezer Cooke
17th Century American Poet: Michael Wigglesworth
24 Great American Poets of the 18th Century
18th Century American Poet: Sarah Wentworth Apthorp Morton
18th Century American Poet: Sarah Kemble Knight
18th Century American Poet: John Trumbull
18th Century American Poet: Ann Eliza Bleecker
18th Century American Poet: J. Hector St. John de Crèvecœur
18th Century American Poet: Philip Freneau
18th Century American Poet: Jonathan Edwards
18th Century American Poet: Elizabeth Graeme Fergusson
18th Century American Poet: John Trumbull
18th Century American Poet: Jonathan Edwards
18th Century American Poet: J. Hector St. John de Crèvecœur
18th Century American Poet: Philip Freneau
18th Century American Poet: Sarah Kemble Knight
18th Century American Poet: Sarah Wentworth Apthorp Morton
18th Century American Poet: Hannah Griffitts
18th Century American Poet: Elizabeth Graeme Fergusson
18th Century American Poet: Ann Eliza Bleecker
19th Century American poet: Edgar Lee Masters
19th Century American Poet: Ernest Lawrence Thayer
19th Century American Poet: Lucy Larcom
19th Century American Poet: William Cullen Bryant
19th Century American Poet: Emma Lazarus
19th Century American Poet: Emily Dickinson
19th Century American Poet: Bayard Taylor
19th Century American Poet: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
13 Famous American Poets of the 19th Century
19th Century American Poet: Ella Wheeler Wilcox
19th Century American poet: Hermann Georg Scheffauer
19th Century American poet: Adaliza Cutter Phelps
19th Century American poet: Edgar Lee Masters
19th Century American poet:Don Marquis
19th Century American poet: Harriet Monroe
19th Century American poet: Silas Weir Mitchell
19th Century American poet: Henry David Thoreau
19th Century American poet: John Reuben Thompson
19th Century American poet: John Neal
19th Century American poet:Lucretia Maria Davidson
20th Century American Poet: Charles Wright
20th Century American poet: Karl Shapiro
20th Century American poet: William Saroyan
20th Century American poet: Marianne Moore
20th Century American Poet: C.K. Williams
20th Century American Poet: Sharon Olds
20th Century American Poet: Diane Di Prima
20th Century American Poet: John Ciardi
20th Century American poet: Louis Untermeyer
20th Century American poet: Leslie Scalapino
20th Century American Poet: Robert Hass
20th Century American Poet: Alice Notley
20th Century American Poet: Denise Duhamel
20th Century American Poet: Frank Bidart
20th Century American Poet: June Jordan
20th Century American Poet: Ron Padgett
20th Century American Poet: Anne Waldman
20th Century American Poet: C.K. Williams
20th Century American Poet: Charles Wright
20th Century American Poet: Philip Whalen
21th Century American Poet: Galway Kinnell
21th Century American Poet: John Giorno
21th Century American poet: Jimmy Santiago Baca
21th Century American Poet: Charles Simic
21th Century American poet: David Baker
21th Century American Poet: Jack Gilbert
21th Century American poet: Jesse Ball
21th Century American poet: Ellen Bass
21th Century American poet: George Watsky
21th Century American poet: Jimmy Santiago Baca
21th Century American Poet: Philip Levine
21th Century American Poet: Jack Gilbert
21st Century American Poet: Kay Ryan
21st Century American Poet: James Tate
21th Century American Poet: Galway Kinnell
21th Century American Poet: Grace Paley
21th Century American Poet: Robert Bly
21th Century American Poet: John Giorno
21th Century American Poet: Stanley Kunitz
21th Century American Poet: Lyn Hejinian