Metaphysical    (1603 - 1670)
Donne, Jonson, Herrick, Herbert, Lovelace

Neo-Classical    (1660 - 1798)
Pope, Dryden, Milton, Swift, Wadsworth

Revolutionary    (1765 - 1830)
 Coleridge, Burns, Longfellow, Wordsworth

Romantic    (1830 - 1865)
Keats, Shelley, Byron, Poe, Whitman, Blake, Tennyson

Victorian    (1832 - 1870)
Dickinson, Browning, Bronte, Barrett-Browning, Arnold, Stevenson

Realistic    (1879 - 1914)
Owen, Houseman, Rossetti, Hardy, Lampman, A. Lowell, Twain, Hopkins

Modern    (1914 - 1930)
Sanburg, Frost, Lawrence, Pound, Millay, Cummings, Benet, T.S. Eliot, Nash

Post-Modern    (1930 - 1960)
Auden, Yeats, Woolf, Thomas, Joyce, Williams

Contemporary    (1960 - Present)
Sitwell, Warren, Agee, Heany, Hughes, Atwood, Plath, Ferlinghetti, Welty

** subsets such as the Beat poets, the sixties, music groups are fine as long as you find a definitive pattern.

Start your research at these sites:
ERIC:databases on many different subjects and angles.
Encyclopedia:which gives you related topics and articles to your search words.
American Literature:search for American poets by time period.
http://www.luminarium.org:search for poets, their work, and biographies.
 

Last updated on July 8, 1998
Mary Sauve