What is List of poets from the United States?
This is a list of '''poets''' from the United States, or American poets, that have written important poetry or famous poetry. [[Poet]]s that are alive, are at the bottom of the list. *[[Phillis Wheatley]] (d. 1784) *[[Jupiter Hammon]] (d. c. 1806) *[[Francis Scott Key]] (d.1843), a poem of his became the [[national anthem]] of the United States *[[Edgar Allan Poe]] (d. 1849) *[[John Pierpont]] (d. 1866) *[[Nathaniel Parker Willis]] (d. 1867) *[[Phoebe Cary]] (d. 1871) *[[Ralph Waldo Emerson]] (d. 1882) *[[Henry Wadsworth Longfellow]] (d. 1882) *[[Emily Dickinson]] (d. 1886) *[[Emma Lazarus]] (d.1887) *[[William Clark Falkner]] (d. 1889) *[[Herman Melville]] (d. 1890) *[[James Russell Lowell]] (d. 1891) *[[Walt Whitman]] (d. 1892) *[[John Greenleaf Whittier]] (d. 1892) *[[Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.]] (d. 1894) *[[Stephen Crane]] (d. 1900) *[[Julia Ward Howe]] (d. 1910) *[[Richard Howard]] (d. 1922) *[[Elinor Wylie]] (d. 1928) *[[Hart Crane]] (d. 1932) *[[Sara Teasdale]] (d. 1933) *[[James Weldon Johnson]] (d. 1938) *[[Gertrude Stein]] (d. 1946) *[[Edna St. Vincent Millay]] (d. 1950) *[[Julia de Burgos]] (d. 1953) *[[Wallace Stevens]] (d. 1955) *[[Richard Wright]] (d. 1960) *[[Jessie Redmon Fauset]] (d. 1961) *[[H.D.]] (Hilda Doolittle) (d. 1961) *[[E. E. Cummings]] (d. 1962) *[[Robinson Jeffers]] (d. 1962) *[[Robert Frost]] (d. 1963) *[[Sylvia Plath]] (d. 1963) *[[Theodore Roethke]] (d. 1963) *[[William Carlos Williams]] (d. 1963) *[[T. S. Eliot]] (d. 1965); [[The Waste Land]] is [one of] his most important poems.<ref>https://snl.no/T._S._Eliot. [[Store Norske Leksikon]]. Retrieved 2023-12-01</ref> *[[Jack Spicer]] (d. 1965) *[[Frank O'Hara]] (d. 1966) *[[Langston Hughes]] (d. 1967) *[[Dorothy Parker]] (d. 1967) *[[Carl Sandburg]] (d. 1967) *[[Mercedes de Acosta]] (d. 1968) *[[Thomas Merton]] (d. 1968) <!--No important or famous poetry, from [[Jack Kerouac]] (d. 1969), referenced--> *[[Lorine Niedecker]] (d. 1970) *[[Charles Olson]] (d. 1970) *[[Jim M