Poets, American
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Broader term:Narrower terms:- Poets, American -- 19th century
- Poets, American -- 20th century
- Poets, American -- 21st century
- Poets, American -- Biography
- Poets, American -- Homes and haunts
- African American poets
- Coblentz, Stanton A. (Stanton Arthur), 1896-1982
- Horton, George Moses, 1798?-approximately 1880
- Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967
- Kennedy, Thomas, 1776-1832
- Lanier, Sidney, 1842-1881
- Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849
- Rickel, Boyer
- Sandburg, Carl, 1878-1967
- Sigourney, L. H. (Lydia Howard), 1791-1865
- Wheatley, Phillis, 1753-1784
- Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892
- Whittier, John Greenleaf, 1807-1892
- Wilcox, Ella Wheeler, 1850-1919
- American poets
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The Poets and Poetry of America (16th edition; Philadelphia: Parry and McMillan, 1855), by Rufus W. Griswold- The Poets and Poetry of America; With an Historical Introduction (Philadelphia: Carey and Hart, 1842), ed. by Rufus W. Griswold (page images at HathiTrust)
- An American Man of Letters (magazine reprint; 1909), by Collier Cobb
- Thomas Kennedy: The Poet Who Loved Liberty and Led a Struggle for Religious Tolerance (c2021), by Dan Guzy (page images with commentary at WHILBR)
- Whitman: An Interpretation in Narrative (New York and London: A. A. Knopf, 1926), by Emory Holloway (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Days With Walt Whitman; With Some Notes on His Life and Work (London: G. Allen, 1906), by Edward Carpenter
- John Greenleaf Whittier: A Sketch of His Life, With Selected Poems, by Bliss Perry and John Greenleaf Whittier (HTML at Michigan)
- Letters of Life (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1866), by L. H. Sigourney (page images at archive.org)
- Sidney Lanier, by Edwin Mims (Gutenberg text)
- Walt Whitman (Philadelphia: D. McKay, 1883), by Richard Maurice Bucke
- Walt Whitman in Mickle Street (New York: Mitchell Kennerley, 1921), by Elizabeth Leavitt Keller, contrib. by Guido Bruno (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Walt Whitman; To Which is Added, English Critics on Walt Whitman (Glasgow: Wilson and McCormick, 1884), by Richard Maurice Bucke, ed. by Edward Dowden (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Worlds and I (New York: George H. Doran Co., c1918), by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
- Life and Letters of Edmund Clarence Stedman (2 volumes; New York: Moffat, Yard and Co., 1910), by Edmund Clarence Stedman, Laura Stedman, and George M. Gould (page images at HathiTrust)
- Poets of the South: A Series of Biographical and Critical Studies With Typical Poems, Annotated, by F. V. N. Painter (Gutenberg text)
- Poets of the South: A Series of Biographical and Critical Studies With Typical Poems, Annotated (New York et al.: American Book Co., c1903), by F. V. N. Painter
- Some Reminiscences and Early Letters of Sidney Lanier (Macon, GA: J. W. Burke Co., 1907), by George Herbert Clarke, contrib. by Harry Stillwell Edwards and Sidney Lanier
- The Walt Whitman Archive, by Walt Whitman, ed. by Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, and Kenneth M. Price (HTML at whitmanarchive.org)
- The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe, With Notices of His Life and Genius (2 volumes; New York: J. S. Redfield, 1850), by Edgar Allan Poe, contrib. by Nathaniel Parker Willis, James Russell Lowell, and Rufus W. Griswold (page images at HathiTrust)
- My Life in Poetry (New York: Bookman Associates, c1959), by Stanton A. Coblentz (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Poetical Works of George M. Horton, The Colored Bard of North Carolina, To Which is Prefixed the Life of the Author, Written by Himself (Hillsborough, NC: D. Heartt, 1845), by George Moses Horton (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- An American Man of Letters (magazine reprint; 1909), by Collier Cobb
- The Big Sea (c1940), by Langston Hughes (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
- Thomas Kennedy: The Poet Who Loved Liberty and Led a Struggle for Religious Tolerance (c2021), by Dan Guzy (page images with commentary at WHILBR)
- Some Reminiscences and Early Letters of Sidney Lanier (Macon, GA: J. W. Burke Co., 1907), by George Herbert Clarke, contrib. by Harry Stillwell Edwards and Sidney Lanier
- Poems of Sidney Lanier, Edited By His Wife (1884 Scribner's edition), by Sidney Lanier, ed. by Mary Day Lanier (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Sidney Lanier, by Edwin Mims (Gutenberg text)
- Poets of the South: A Series of Biographical and Critical Studies With Typical Poems, Annotated (New York et al.: American Book Co., c1903), by F. V. N. Painter
- Poets of the South: A Series of Biographical and Critical Studies With Typical Poems, Annotated, by F. V. N. Painter (Gutenberg text)
- Myths and Reality: The Mysterious Mr. Poe (Baltimore: Edgar Allan Poe Society, 1987), ed. by Benjamin Franklin Fisher (HTML at eapoe.org)
- Masques, Mysteries, and Mastodons: A Poe Miscellany (Baltimore: Edgar Allan Poe Society, 2006), ed. by Benjamin Franklin Fisher (HTML at eapoe.org)
- The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe, With Notices of His Life and Genius (2 volumes; New York: J. S. Redfield, 1850), by Edgar Allan Poe, contrib. by Nathaniel Parker Willis, James Russell Lowell, and Rufus W. Griswold (page images at HathiTrust)
- Mabbott as Poe Scholar: The Early Years (Baltimore: Edgar Allan Poe Society, 1980), by Maureen Cobb Mabbott (illustrated HTML at eapoe.org)
- Edgar Allan Poe: A Critical Biography (New York and London: D. Appleton-Century Co., 1941), by Arthur Hobson Quinn (illustrated HTML with commentary at eapoe.org)
- Poe and the Southern Literary Messenger (Richmond, VA: Press of the Dietz Printing Co., 1934), by David Kelly Jackson, contrib. by J. H. Whitty (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Dreamer: A Romantic Rendering of the Life-Story of Edgar Allan Poe (Richmond, VA: Bell Book and Stationery Co., 1909), by Mary Newton Stanard (Gutenberg text)
- Edgar A. Poe: A Study (San Francisco: Printed by B. Brough, 1921), by John W. Robertson
- Poets of the South: A Series of Biographical and Critical Studies With Typical Poems, Annotated, by F. V. N. Painter (Gutenberg text)
- Poets of the South: A Series of Biographical and Critical Studies With Typical Poems, Annotated (New York et al.: American Book Co., c1903), by F. V. N. Painter
- Short Studies of American Authors (enlarged edition; Boston: Lee and Shepard; New York: C. T. Dillingham, 1888), by Thomas Wentworth Higginson
- Four Famous American Writers: Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, James Russell Lowell, Bayard Taylor (1899), by Sherwin Cody (Gutenberg text)
- Four Famous American Writers: Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, James Russell Lowell, Bayard Taylor (New York et al.: Werner School Book Co., c1899), by Sherwin Cody
- American Prose Masters: Cooper, Hawthorne, Emerson, Poe, Lowell, Henry James (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1909), by W. C. Brownell (page images at HathiTrust)
- Taboo (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, c1999), by Boyer Rickel (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)
- Port of New York: Essays on Fourteen American Moderns (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1924), by Paul Rosenfeld, illust. by Alfred Stieglitz, Alice Boughton, Paul Strand, and Dana Desboro (page images at HathiTrust)
- Letters of Life (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1866), by L. H. Sigourney (page images at archive.org)
- Memoir and Poems of Phillis Wheatley, a Native African and Slave (Boston: Published by Geo. W. Light, 1834), by Phillis Wheatley and Margaretta Matilda Odell
- Memoir of Phillis Wheatley, a Native African and a Slave (Boston: G. W. Light; New York: Moore and Payne, 1834), by B. B. Thatcher (HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)
- Genealogy of the Wheatley or Wheatleigh Family: A History of the Family in England and America (Farmington, NH: E. H. Thomas, 1902), by Hannibal P. Wheatley (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Walt Whitman (Philadelphia: D. McKay, 1883), by Richard Maurice Bucke
- Walt Whitman; To Which is Added, English Critics on Walt Whitman (Glasgow: Wilson and McCormick, 1884), by Richard Maurice Bucke, ed. by Edward Dowden (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Days With Walt Whitman; With Some Notes on His Life and Work (London: G. Allen, 1906), by Edward Carpenter
- Whitman: An Interpretation in Narrative (New York and London: A. A. Knopf, 1926), by Emory Holloway (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Walt Whitman Archive, by Walt Whitman, ed. by Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, and Kenneth M. Price (HTML at whitmanarchive.org)
- Standish O'Grady: Selected Essays and Passages (Dublin: Talbot Press; London: T. Fisher Unwin, ca. 1918), by Standish O'Grady, contrib. by Ernest Augustus Boyd (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Four Americans: Roosevelt, Hawthorne, Emerson, Whitman (New Haven: Pub. for the Yale Review by Yale University Press, 1920), by Henry A. Beers (Gutenberg text)
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