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Works marked with a "*" are highly recommended.
William Ross Wallace
- (1819-1881)American Lawyer, Poet
Selected Books:
- The Battle of Tippecanoe [1837]
- Alban the Pirate [1948]
- Meditations in America and Other Poems [1851]
- The Liberty Bell [1862]
- What Rules the World [1865]
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward
- (1844-1911) American Novelist, Poet
Selected Books:
- Poetic Studies [1875]
- Songs of the Silent World [1885]
Samuel Ward
- (1814-1884) American Poet, Lobbyist, Biographer, Miner (Brother of Julia Ward Howe)
Selected Books:
- Lyrical Recreations [1865]
Thomas ("Flaccus") Ward
- (1807-1873) Physician, Poet, Musician, Philanthropist
Selected Books:
- Passaic, a Group of Poems Touching That River, with Other Musings [1842]
Robert Penn Warren
- (1905-1989) American Poet, Novelist, English Professor and Critic; winner of Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry(1958) and Prose(1947)
Selected Books:
- Thirty-Six Poems [1935]
- Eleven Poems on the Same Theme [1942]
- Promises [1957]
- Brother to Dragons [1958,1973]
- You, Emperors, and Others [1960]
- Selected Poems, New and Old 1923-1966 [1966]
- Incarnations [1968]
- Audobon:A Vision [1969]
- Or Else [1964]
- Can I See Arcturus from Where I Stand [1974]
- Selected Poems 1923-1975 [1975]
- Now and Then [1978]
- Altitudes and Extensions [1985]
- New and Selected Poems 1923-1985 [1985]
George Watterston
- (1783-1854) American Lawyer, Librarian, Novelist, Poet
Selected Books:
- The Wanderer in Jamaica [1810]
- The Scenes of Youth [1813]
Winifred Welles
- (1893-1939) American Poet, Historian
Selected Books:
- The Hesitant Heart [1919]
- This Delicate Love [1929]
- Skipping Along ALone [1931]
- Blossoming Antlers [1933]
- A Spectacle for Scholars [1935]
- The Park That Spring Forgot [1940]
- The Shape of Memory [1944]
Glenway Wescott
- (1901-1989) American Poet, Novelist
Selected Books:
Ethelwyn [Agnes] Wetherald
- (1857-1940)American poet, Jornalist
Selected Books:
- The Last Robin [1907]
- Tree Top Morning [1921]
- Lyrics and Sonnets [1931]
Phyllis Wheatley
- (1753-1784) American Poet, born in Gambia
Selected Books:
- Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral [1773]
John Hall Wheelock
- [1886-1978] American Poet, Editor, Publisher
Selected Books:
- Verses of Two Undergraduates [1905]
- The Human Fantasy [1911]
- The Beloved Adventure [1912]
- Love and Liberation [1913]
- Dust and Light [1919]
- The Black Panther [1922]
- The Bright Doom [1927]
- Collected Poems [1936]
- Poems Old and New [1956]
- The Gardener and Other Poems [1961]
John Brooks Wheelwright
- (1897-1940) American Poet
Selected Books:
- Rock and Shell [1933]
- Mirrors of Venus [1938]
- Political Self-Portrait [1940]
- Collected Poems [1972]
James M. Whitfield
- (1869-1934) American Barber, Poet, Lecturer
Selected Books:
- America and Other Poems [1853]
Sarah Helen [Power] Whitman
- (1803-1878) Poet, Critic; subject of Poe's 'To Helen'
Selected Books:
- Hours of Life and Other Poems [1853]
- Poems [1879]
Walt [Walter] Whitman
- (1819-1892) American poet, Journalist, Essayist, Nurse
Selectd Books:
- Leaves of Grass [1855,1856,1860,1871,1881,1892]
- Drum-Taps [1865]
- Poems of Walt Whitman [1868]
John Greenleaf Whittier
- (1807-1892) American Poet, Aboltionist, Journalist ("The Quaker Poet")
Selectd Books:
- Moll Pitcher[1832]
- Lays of my Home and Other Poems [1843]
- Ballads and Other Poems [1844]
- Voices of Freedom [1846]
- Songs of Labor [1850]
- Old Portraits and Modern Sketches [1850]
- The Chapel of the Hermits and Other Poems [1853]
- The Panorama and Other Poems [1856]
- Home Ballads and Poems [1860]
- In War Times and Other Poems [1864]
- Snow-Bound [1866]
- Poetical Works [1869]
- The Tent on the Beach [1867]
- Among the Hills [1869]
- Miriam and Other Poems [1871]
- The Pennsylvania Pilgrim [1872]
- Hazel Blossoms [1875]
- At Sundown [1890]
- Complete Poetical Works [1894]
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
- (1850-1919) American poet, Novelist, Journalist, Feminist
Selectd Books:
- Drops of Water [1872]
- Poems of Passion [1883]
- Poems of Pleasure
- Poems of Love
- Maurine and Other Poems [1888]
- Out of the Depths
- Poems of Reflection [1905]
- The Worlds and I [1918]
- Collected Poems [1920]
William Carlos Williams
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Selected Books of Poetry
Poems [1090]
- The Tempers [1913]
- Al Que Quiere! [1917]
- Kora in Hell: Improvisations [1920]
- Sour Grapes [1921]
- Spring and All [1923]
- Go Go [1923]
- The Cod Head [1932]
- Collected Poems 1921-1931 [1934]
- An Early Martyr and Other Poems [1935]
- Adam & Eve & the City [1936]
- The Complete Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams 1906-1938 [1938]
- The Broken Span [1941]
- The Wedge [1944]
- Paterson, Book One [1946]
- The Clouds [1948]
- The Pink Church [1949]
- Selectd Poems [1949]
- Paterson, Book Two [1948]
- Paterson, Book Three [1949]
- The Collected Later Poems [1950]
- The Collected Earlier Poems [1951]
- Paterson, Book Four [1951]
- The Desert Music and Other Poems [1954]
- Journey to Love [1955]
- The Lost Poems of W.C.W or Teh Past Recaptured [1957]
- Paterson, Book Five [1958]
- Pictures from Brugel and Other Poems [1962]
- Paterson [1963]
- The Collected Later Poems of W.C.W. [1963]
- The Selected Poems of W.C.W. [1963]
Samuel Woodworth
- (1784-1842) American Poet, Editor, Playwright
Selectd Books:
- Poems, Odes, Songs, and Other Metrical Effusions [1818]
- Poetical Works [1861]
James [Arlington] Wright
- (1927-1980) American poet, Translator
Selectd Books:
- The Green Wall [1957]
- Saint Judas [1959]
- The Branch Will Not Break [1963]
- We Shall Gather at the River [1968]
- Collected Poems [1971] - won the 1972 Pulitzer Prize
- Two Citizens [1973]
- Moments of the Italian Summer [1976]
- To a Blossoming Pear Tree [1977]
- The Journey [1982]
- The Temple in Nimes [1982]
- The Shape of Light [1986]
- The Complete Poems [1990]
Audrey Wurdemann
- (1911-1960) American Poet, Novelist
Selectd Books:
- The House of Silk [1926]
- Bright Ambush [1934] - won the Pulitzer Prize
- The Seven Sins [1935]
- Splendor in the Grass [1936]
- The Testament of Love [1938]
Elinor Wylie
- (1885-1928) American Poet, Essayist, Novelist, Critic, and Editor
Selectd Books:
- Incidental Nuumbers [1912]
- Nets to Catch the Wind [1921]
- Black Armour [1923]
- Trivial Breath [1928]
- Angels and Earthly Creatures [1929]
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