11.   He also criticizes a volume of Nabokov on the grounds that Nabokov is no more an American writer than Joseph Brodsky is an American poet.

12.   He opened class by quoting gay American poet Walt Whitman.

13.   Hicks-Manning, later killed in a fire of suspicious origins, was the mother-in-law of American Indian activist poet John Trudell.

14.   His best friend in Paris, as it turns out, is American poet C.K. Williams, who also lives there part of the year.

15.   Hughes was unquestionably the best black writer of his time, and a major American poet.

16.   Italian countryside by an American poet.

17.   Take the Central Park statue of Fitz-Greene Halleck, an American romantic poet.

18.   The American poet looks back on his youth.

19.   The one American poet who could sing outdoors.

20.   The saintly, folksy Whittier may have been the best-loved American poet, but the most memorized one was Longfellow, here and in an England that exalted him.