IGNOU MEG-18 Help Book American Poetry in English – MA English Latest Edition Guide and Study Material.

Block 1 – An Introduction to American Poetry: Themes and Issues
Contextualizing American Poetry: Colonial Period
Contextualizing American Poetry: Post Colonial Period
Contextualizing American Poetry: Modern Period

Block 2 – Eighteen and the Nineteenth Century-I
Background
Philip Freneau’s “The Wild Honey Suckle”
Phillis Wheatley’s “On Being Brought From Africa to America”
Ralph Waldo Emerson’s “Brahma”
Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself”
Emily Dickinson: “I Taste A Liquor Never Brewed” and “She Sweeps With Many Colored Brooms”

Block 3 – Eighteenth and the Nineteenth Century-II
Background
Edgar Lee Master’s “America”
Carl Sandburg’s “Accomplished Facts”
Robert Frost’s “Home Burial” and “After Apple Picking”

Block 4 – Early Twentieth Century
Background
T. S. Eliot’s “Ash Wednesday”
Ezra Pound’s “The River Merchant’s Wife: A Letter”
William Carlos Williams’ “A Good Night”
Countee Cullen’s “Lines to My Father” and “Langston Hughes’ Let America Be America Again”

Block 5 – Mid Twentieth Century
Background
Robert Lowell’s “For The Union Dead”
Sylvia Plath’s “Ariel”, “Daddy” and “Lady Lazarus”
Anne Sexton’s “After Auschwitz” and Elizabth Bishop’s “A Summer’s Dream”
Wallace Stevens “Anecdote of The Jar”

Block 6 – Late Twentieth Century
Background
John Crowe Ransom’s “Riverside”
Leslie Marmon Silko’s “Selection From Laguna Woman” and “Joy Harjo’s The Last Song”
Robert Penn Warren’s “A Way to Love God”
Allen Ginsberg’s “Death and Fame”

Block 7 – Contemporary Poetry
Background
Adrienne Rich’s “In a Classroom” and Carolyn Kizer’s “On a Line from Valéry” (The Gulf War)
Maya Angelou’s “Touched by an Angel” and Marge Piercy’s “The Colors Passing Through Us”
Shirley Geok-Lin Lim’s “Pantoun for Chinese Women”
Gwendolyn Brooks “The Children of the Poor”