Authors

Sherwood Anderson (September 13, 1876 – March 8, 1941)

Winesburg, Ohio (1919)

Djuna Barnes

 

Saul Bellow

 

William Blake (November 28, 1757 – August 12, 1827)

"London"

Sterling Brown (1901–1989)

Stanley Burnshaw (1906–2005)

Lewis Carroll

Willa Cather (December 7, 1873 – April 24, 1947)

Margaret Cavendish (1623 – December 15, 1673)

Vikram Chandra

Billy Collins (1941–)

James Fennimore Cooper

E. E. Cummings

Daniel Defoe ()

 

Don DeLillo ()

Underworld ()

Thomas Deloney (1543 – April 1600)

Emily Dickinson (December 10, 1830–May 15, 1886)

Theodore Dreiser (August 27, 1871 – December 28, 1945)

Paul Laurence Dunbar (June 27, 1872 – February 9, 1906)

"The Poet and His Song"

"Sympathy"

"We Wear the Mask"

Michael Madhusudan Dutta (January 25, 1824 – June 29, 1873)

T. S. Eliot

The Love Song of Alfred J. Prufrock

 

Queen Elizabeth I (September 7, 1533–March 24, 1603)

William Faulkner

As I Lay Dying (1930)

Henry Fielding ()

Donald Finkel

Donald Finkel, a poet-in-residence at Washington University since 1960, has produced a sizable body of innovative poetry over the past two decades. He was born in New York and received both undergraduate and graduate degrees from Columbia University. Much of his teaching career has been at Washington University where he developed the Writers' Program with his wife, Constance Urdang, but he has also taught at the University of Iowa, Bard College, and Bennington College. 

Finkel has written ten volumes of poetry, beginning with The Clothings' New Emperor (1959). His recent work includes A Splintered Mirror: Chinese Poetry from the Democracy Movement (1991). Finkel's work has not received the extensive critical attention often given to the work of other authors; yet, what has been said about his poems is overwhelmingly positive. Finkel is a painstaking researcher and collector of information and his poems reflect this. They are grounded in a thorough understanding and appreciation of their subjects, and often contain "found" texts. 

Reflecting Finkel's unique place among American poets, his papers represent one of the more interesting groups in the Washington University manuscript collection. His extensive research materials, journals, notes, and heavily revised manuscripts comprise the bulk of the Finkel Papers. A large collection of editorial matter toward all of his books and a small, yet revealing professional correspondence with editors and literary colleagues completes the Finkel Collection.

 

F. Scott Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 – December 21, 1940)

Robert Frost (March 26, 1874 – January 29, 1963)

Thomas Hardy (June 2, 1840 – January 11, 1928)

Ernest Hemingway

M. Carl Holman (1919 – 1988)

A. E. Housman

Henry James ( – )

Randall Jarrell (May 6, 1914 – October 14, 1965)

Ben Jonson (1572 – 1637)

D. H. Lawrence (September 11, 1885 – March 2, 1930)

Jack London (January 12, 1876 – November 22, 1916)

John Milton

Toni Morrison

 

Paul Muldoon

Vladimir Nabokov

 

Pablo Neruda

Eugene O’Neill

 

Linda Pastan

Sylvia Plath

Alexander Pope

The Rape of the Lock

 

Samuel Richardson

Pamela

 

Christina Rossetti

Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

William Shakespeare (1564 – 23 April 1616)

Sonnet 18  "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day"

Mary Shelley

Philip Sidney

Gertrude Stein (February 3, 1874 – July 29, 1946)

John Steinbeck

Wallace Stevens

Anne Stevenson ()

Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Edith Wharton (January 24, 1862 – August 11, 1937)

William Hale White (December 22, 1831 - March 14, 1913)

Walt Whitman ()

William Carlos Williams

William Wordsworth (April 7, 1770 – April 23, 1850)

William Butler Yeats (13 June 1865 – 28 January 1939)

 

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