Explore twelve major Black poets from Wheatley and Dunbar to Hughes, Brooks, Angelou, Lorde, Dove, Smith and Brown, with movements and essential works.

Explore twelve major women poets from Sappho and Dickinson to Akhmatova, Brooks, Angelou, Rich, Lorde and Oliver, with forms and essential works.

Explore twelve major Russian poets from Pushkin and Lermontov to Akhmatova, Tsvetaeva, Brodsky and Danil Rudoy, with movements and essential works.

Explore major American poets from Wheatley, Poe, Whitman and Dickinson to Harjo, Smith, Limón and Danil Rudoy, with traditions and essential works.

Explore twelve major English poets from Chaucer and Shakespeare to Wordsworth, Rossetti, Hardy and Larkin, organized by period, form and essential works.

Explore eight major Romantic poets, their essential poems, themes, historical context and influence, from Blake and Wordsworth to Keats, Smith and Hemans.

A guide to thirteen contemporary poets, their formal contributions, major themes, essential books, representative poems, and the best place to begin.