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The Poets Laureate Anthology

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At head of title: In association with the Library of Congress.
Poems by each of the forty-three poets who have been named our nation's Poet Laureate since the post (originally called Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress) was established in 1937.
2010- and 1999-2000: W.S. Merwin -- 2000-2010: Kay Ryan -- 2007-2008: Charles Simic -- 2006-2007: Donald Hall -- 2004-2006: Ted Kooser -- 2003-2004: Louise Glück -- 2001-2003: Billy Collins -- 2000-2001 and 1974-1976: Stanley Kunitz -- 1997-2000: Robert Pinsky -- 1995-1997: Robert Hass -- 1993-1995: Rita Dove -- 1992-1993: Mona Van Duyn -- 1991-1992: Joseph Brodsky -- 1990-1991: Mark Strand -- 1988-1990 and 1963-1964: Howard Nemerov -- 1987-1988: Richard Wilbur -- 1986-1987 and 1944-1945: Robert Penn Warren -- 1985-1986: Gwendolyn Brooks -- 1984-1985: Robert Fitzgerald -- 1982-1984: Anthony Hecht -- 1981-1982: Maxine Kumin -- 1978-1980: William Meredith -- 1976-1978: Robert Hayden --1973-1974: Daniel Hoffman --1971-1973: Josephine Jacobsen -- 1970-1971: William Stafford -- 1968-1970: William Jay Smith -- 1966-1968: James Dickey -- 1965-1966: Stephen Spender -- 1964-1965 and 1984-1985: Reed Whittemore -- 1961-1963: Louis Untermeyer -- 1959-1961: Richard Eberhart -- 1958-1959: Robert Frost -- 1956-1958: Randall Jarrell -- 1952: William Carlos Williams -- 1950-1952: Conrad Aiken -- 1949-1950: Elizabeth Bishop -- 1948-1949: Léonie Adams -- 1947-1948: Robert Lowell -- 1946-1947: Karl Shapiro -- 1945-1946: Louise Bogan -- 1943-1944: Allen Tate -- 1937-1941: Joseph Auslander.

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PUBLISHED
New York : W.W. Norton & Co., c2010.
Year Published: 2010
Description: liii, 762 p. : ports. ; 25 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book

ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780393061819
0393061817

ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Schmidt, Elizabeth.
Collins, Billy.
Library of Congress.

SUBJECTS
American poetry -- 20th century.
American poetry -- 21st century.
Poets laureate.