New Poets of England and America

New Poets of England and America was a poetry anthology edited by Donald Hall, Robert Pack and Louis Simpson, and published in 1957.[1] In the post-war story about relations between American and British poetry, it represents the moment of closest rapprochement, actual or intended. The introduction was written by Robert Frost.[2] The inclusion of a number of British Movement poets, as well as others, implies some kind of search for matching figures amongst the Americans.[citation needed] Poets had to be under forty years old to be included.[1]

First edition

Poets in New Poets of England and America edit

Kingsley Amis - William Bell - Robert Bly - Philip Booth - Edgar Bowers - Charles Causley - Henri Coulette - Donald Davie - Catherine Davis - Keith Douglas - Donald Finkel - W. S. Graham - Charles Gullans - Thom Gunn - Donald Hall - Michael Hamburger - Elizabeth R. Harrod - John Heath-Stubbs - Anthony Hecht - Geoffrey Hill - John Hollander - John Holloway - Elizabeth Jennings - Donald Justice - Ellen de Young Kay - Melvin Walker La Follette - Joseph Langland - Philip Larkin - Robert Layzer - Robert Lowell - William Matchett - Thomas McGrath - William Meredith - James Merrill - W. S. Merwin - Robert Mezey - Vassar Miller - Howard Moss - Howard Nemerov - Robert Pack - Alastair Reid - Adrienne Cecile Rich - Jon Silkin - Louis Simpson - William Jay Smith - W. D. Snodgrass - May Swenson - Wesley Trimpi - Jon Manchip White - Reed Whittemore - Richard Wilbur - James Wright

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References edit

  1. ^ a b Smith, Harrison (2018-06-26). "Donald Hall, former U.S. poet laureate who wrote of nature and loss, dies at 89". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2023-12-06.
  2. ^ "New Poets of England and America", The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry in English, Oxford University Press, 1996, ISBN 978-0-19-280042-8, retrieved 2023-12-06