Recommended Website:
The Life and Works of Famous American Poets
This website was designed by a teacher and her gifted students. It includes short biographies, pictures, a sample of poetry, and a short analysis of the poem of 12 American poets. The poets include:
- e.e. cummings
- Emily Dickinson
- T.S. Eliot
- Eugene Field
- Robert Frost
- Langston Hughes
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Ogden Nash
- Edgar Allen Poe
- Carl Sandburg
- Robert Louis Stevenson
- Walt Whitman
This serves as a great introduction to American poets and may springboard your family to wanting to read more poetry by one or all of the authors!
