English Poetry
Listed below are names of authors who write poetry. Students will be studying many of them and their poems while attending Wharton Jr. High School. Each name is linked to a site that contains biographical information on that particular author. Maya Angelou
W. H. Auden
Elizabeth Bishop
William Blake
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Robert Browning
Elizabeth Coatsworth
Billy Collins
Geraldine Connolly
Edward Estlin Cummings
Emily Dickinson
T. S. Eliot
Ralph Fletcher
Robert Frost
Nikki Giovanni
Langston Hughes
Ted Kooser
Pablo Neruda
Naomi Shihab Nye
Mary Oliver
Edgar Allan Poe
Ezra Pound
Sylvia Plath
Jack Prelutsky
Edwin Arlington Robinson
William Shakespeare
Gary Soto
William Stafford
Sara Teasdale
Dylan Thomas
Ronald Wallace
Charles Webb
Walt Whitman
William Carlos Williams
William Woodsworth
Jane Yolen
W. B. Yeats