20th-century american poets

Edmund Wilson

American writer and literary critic who explored Freudian and Marxist themes

John Updike

American novelist, poet, short-story writer, art critic, and literary critic

Jean Toomer

American poet and novelist commonly associated with the Harlem Renaissance, though he actively resisted the association, and modernism

Lewis Thomas

American physician, poet, etymologist, essayist, administrator, educator, policy advisor, and researcher