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
- 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 (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Walt Whitman Archive, by Walt Whitman, ed. by Ed Folsom and Kenneth M. Price (HTML at whitmanarchive.org)
- Letters of Emily Dickinson (2 volumes; Boston: Roberts Bros., 1894), by Emily Dickinson, ed. by Mabel Loomis Todd (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1924), by Emily Dickinson and Martha Dickinson Bianchi (multiple formats at archive.org)
- 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 (multiple formats at archive.org)
- 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)
- Poet at Work: Recovered Notebooks from the Thomas Biggs Harned Walt Whitman Collection, by Walt Whitman (page images with commentary at LOC)
- 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 (multiple formats at archive.org)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- A Bibliographical Checklist of American Negro Poetry (Bibliographica America v2; includes Heartman's bibliography of Phillis Wheatley; New York: C. F. Heartman, 1916), by Arthur Alfonso Schomburg, contrib. by Charles F. Heartman
- The Black Aesthetic Unbound: Theorizing the Dilemma of Eighteenth-Century African American Literature (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2008), by April C. E. Langley (PDF at Ohio State)
- 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 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)
- Recollections of Louisa May Alcott, John Greenleaf Whittier, and Robert Browning, Together With Several Memorial Poems (Boston: Pub. for the author by the New England magazine Corp., 1893), by Maria S. Porter (page images at HathiTrust)
- John Greenleaf Whittier: A Sketch of His Life, With Selected Poems, by Bliss Perry and John Greenleaf Whittier (HTML at Michigan)
- Sketches From Concord and Appledore, by Frank Preston Stearns (Gutenberg text)
- The Story of a Literary Career (Holyoke, MA: E. Towne, 1905), by Ella Wheeler Wilcox, contrib. by Ella Giles Ruddy (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Worlds and I (New York: George H. Doran Co., c1918), by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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