The Poets

Maya Angelou was an American memoirist, essayist, poet, and civil rights activist. She published seven autobiographies, three books of essays, several books of poetry

Robert Lee Frost was an American poet. Known for his realistic depictions of rural life and his command of American colloquial speech,

William Wordsworth was an English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their joint publication Lyrical Ballads

Edgar Albert Guest was a British-born American poet who became known as the People’s Poet. His poems often had an inspirational and optimistic view of everyday life

Sylvia Plath was an American poet and author. She is credited with advancing the genre of confessional poetry and is best known for The Colossus and Other Poems, Ariel, and The Bell Jar

William Butler Yeats was an Irish poet and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature. He is considered a key figure in the Irish Literary Revival 

E. E. Cummings, was an American poet, painter, essayist, author, and playwright. During World War I, he worked as an ambulance driver and was imprisoned in an internment camp

James Mercer Langston Hughes was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist from Joplin, Missouri. An early innovator of jazz poetry

Walter Whitman Jr. was an American poet, essayist, and journalist; he also wrote two novels. He is considered one of the most influential poets in American literature and world literature

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was a prominent American poet of the 19th century, renowned for his accessible and evocative verse.