Download or read book American Poets, 1880-1945, First Series written by Peter Quartermain and published by Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Company. This book was released on 1986 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays on the writers whose works are the story of modern American poetry to World War II - the story of successive generations of writers increasingly gaining familiarity in and security with the American idiom, gaining confidence in being American poets without having to turn to Europe for models or for approval, nor of having to turn away from Europe.