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In a Station of the Metro
is an Imagist poem by Ezra Pound published in April 1913 in the literary magazine Poetry. -
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
is the first professionally published poem by American-born British poet T. S. Eliot. Eliot began writing "Prufrock" in February 1910, and it was first published in the June 1915 issue of Poetry: A Magazine of Verse at the instigation of Ezra Pound. -
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird
a poem from Wallace Stevens's first book of poetry, Harmonium. The poem consists of thirteen short, separate sections, each of which mentions blackbirds in some way. Although inspired by haiku, none of the sections meets the traditional definition of haiku. -
The waste land
a poem by T. S. Eliot, widely regarded as one of the most important poems of the 20th century and a central work of modernist poetry. -
The Red Wheelbarrow
a poem by American modernist poet and physician William Carlos Williams. The poem was originally published without a title and was designated as "XXII" as the twenty-second work in Williams' 1923 book Spring and All, a hybrid collection which incorporated alternating selections of free verse poetry and prose. It is one of Williams' most frequently anthologized poems, and is considered a prime example of early twentieth-century Imagism. -
The Cantos
is a long, incomplete poem in 116 sections, each of which is a canto. Most of it was written between 1915 and 1962, although much of the early work was abandoned and the early cantos, as finally published, date from 1922 onwards.