Poems containing history: twentieth-century American poetry's engagement with the past

History and poetry

Stephen Vincent Benét: John Brown's body and the meaning of the Civil War

Macleish's Conquistador: history as metaphor

A usable past: Robert Penn Warren's Brother to dragons

T.S. Eliot: awaking from the nightmare of history

The varieties of history in Hart Crane's The bridge

Carolyn Forché: history and theophany

Ezra Pound and the problem of history

Getting the news from poems: William Carlos Williams's In the American grain and Paterson

Charles Olson's Maximus: looking for oneself

Looking for the evidence.