Originally Posted by
conartist
I would think Shakespeare would be the most read poet in America, but Poe certanly seems to be the most prominent American poet in American culture. However, considering American poets of the last century or so, with regard to Poe and Walt Whitman, you have Frost, Elizabeth Bishop and maybe a few others who don't seem to have cared much for either; then there are Eliot, Pound, Wallace Stevens, Hart Crane and John Ashberry, all of whom were hugely influenced by Whitman and didn't care at all for Poe. Who came out of Poe? Is there a single strong English verse writer with any relation to him?