Poetry / XXth century (<1945)

"Easter 1916" and Other Poems

by William Butler Yeats

Compilation of all the poems from The Wild Swans at Coole (1919) and Michael Robartes and the Dancer (1921) includes "The Second Coming," "An Irish Airman Foresees His Death," many others.

Border of a Dream: Selected Poems of Antonio Machado

by Antonio Machado & Willis Barnstone

This sweeping assessment of Machado's work confirms his place as one of the twentieth century's great poets.

The Waste Land

by T. S. Eliot

The Waste Land is a long poem by T. S. Eliot. It is widely regarded as one of the most important poems of the 20th century and a central text in Modernist poetry. Published in 1922, the 434-line poem first appeared...

Poems

by T. S. Eliot

Poems by T. S. Eliot. T.S. Eliot, the 1948 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, is one of the giants of modern literature, highly distinguished as a poet, literary critic, dramatist, and editor and publisher....

The Congo and Other Poems

by Vachel Lindsay

Introduction. By Harriet Monroe

When 'Poetry, A Magazine of Verse', was first published in Chicago in the autumn of 1912, an Illinois poet, Vachel Lindsay, was, quite appropriately, one of its first discoveries....