“Above the Oxbow” (Plath)
Adam and Eve. See Eden
Addams, Jane
adolescence: and American modernism; as analogy for poetry; and basketball; and British public schools; and British subcultures; opposed to closure; and continental writing; and feminism; as heterosexuality; opposed to heterosexuality; origins of concept; in recent American poetry; and rock music; and Romantic poetry; before twentieth century. See also peer groups and peer culture; speech (of young people); subcultures and countercultures
“Adolescence” (Andrews)
“Adolescence” (Auden)
“Adolescence” (I and II) (Dove)
“Adolescence” (Gordon)
“Adolescence” (Gunn)
Adolescence (Hall)
“Adolescence” (Joseph)
“Adolescence” (Levis)
“Adolescence” (Lund)
“Adolescence” (Seevak)
“Adolescence Prepared Me For This” (Shovan)
“Adolescent, An” (Hine)
“Adolescent, The” (Naylor)
African Americans
“Afternoon of the Sex Children” (Greif)
Age of Anxiety, The (Auden)
Aiken, Conrad
airplanes
Alabama
Alldritt, Keith
Allen, Donald
Altamont (rock festival)
St. Ambrose
America and Americans; as adolescent; and Britain; after 1960s; in 1960s; after World War II; and World War II
Amis, Kingsley
“Anarchy in the UK” (Sex Pistols)
Anderson, Lindsay
Anderson, Margaret
Andrews, Nin
“And You?” (Ciardi)
“And You Know” (Ashbery)
Annals of Chile, The (Muldoon)
Annie Allen (Brooks)
“Annus Mirabilis” (Larkin)
“Anointing, An” (Moss)
anorexia
antimodernism. See modernism; Murray Les
aposiopesis
“Applicant, The” (Plath)
“Arachnolescence” (Shaughnessy)
Ariel (Plath)
Ariès, Phillipe
Armies of the Night, The (Mailer)
Armitage, Simon
Arnett, Jeffrey
Arnold, Matthew
“Arrival with Dark Circles and Premonition” (Bibbins)
ars poetica
Ashbery, John; and Auden
As You Like It (Shakespeare)
Auden, W. H; drama of; and educational theory; influence of; as schoolteacher; as undergraduate. See also individual works
Austen, Jane
“Austerity of Poetry” (Arnold)
Australia
authority
autism
“Autobiography” (Gunn)
“Autographs” (Wright)
automobiles
Baby Boom
babysitters
Bahamas
Bailey, Beth
“Bally Power Play” (Gunn)
“Barracuda” (Ellis)
baseball
basketball
Bate, Walter Jackson
Baudelaire, Charles
Bay Area. See San Francisco; Berkeley
Beatles
Beat poets
Beauvoir, Simone de
Belfast, Northern Ireland
Bell, Vereen
Bell Jar, The (Plath)
Ben-Amos, Ilana
Bennett, Alan
Bennington College
Berger, Harry
Berkeley, Calif., and University of California–Berkeley
Berlin
Berman, Marshall
Bernstein, Charles
Berry, Chuck
Beyer, Shaileen
Bibbins, Mark
bicycles
“Big Cloud, The” (Ashbery)
“Big Foot” (Muldoon)
“Big House, The” (Muldoon)
biker gangs. See motorcyclists
“Bike Ride with Older Boys” (Kasischke)
Bishop, Elizabeth
Black Arts Movement
Blackboard Jungle
“Blackie, The Electric Rembrandt” (Gunn)
“Black Jackets” (Gunn)
Black Metropolis (Drake and Cayton)
Black Panthers
Black Power
Blackstone Rangers
“Blackstone Rangers, The” (Brooks)
“Bliss” (Larkin/“Coleman”)
Bloom, Harold
Blos, Peter
blues
Blum, W. G.
Bly, Robert
“Boarding School” (Tranter)
Bogan, Louise
“Boon” (Muldoon)
Boss Cupid (Gunn)
Boston, Mass.
Bourgeois Poet, The (Shapiro)
Bourne, Randolph
boustrophedon
Bowering, George
Bowie, David
“Bowl, Cat and Broomstick” (Stevens)
“Boy Breaking Glass” (Brooks)
Boy Heaven (Kasischke)
Boyle, Kay. See also “For Kay Boyle”
boys and young men. See also maleness and masculinity
Bozorth, Richard
Braunstein, Peter
“Breadfruit” (Larkin)
Breary, Nancy
Brennan, Maeve
Briggflatts (Bunting)
Britain. See also Cambridge University; London; Oxford University; “pop” (1960s idea); public schools (British elite schools); punk rock
Bronk, William
Brooks, Gwendolyn; and Black Arts Movement; and Chicago; early poetry of; and gangs; and 1960s youth; and 1970s. See also individual works
Brooks, Van Wyck
Brown, Sterling
Brunner, Edward
Bryn Mawr College
Bunting, Basil; and Peggy Greenbank; and Tom Pickard. See also individual works
Burke, Kenneth
“Burning Want” (Murray)
Bynner, Witter
Byron, Lord (George Gordon)
Cairns, Ed
Cambridge, Mass.
Cambridge University
Canada
“Candy, Stranger” (Kasischke)
Cannell, Skipwith
Carlisle Indian School
Carnevali, Emanuel
Carrie (King)
Carritt, Gabriel
cars. See automobiles
Catcher in the Rye, The (Salinger)
Catholicism
Cayton, Horace. See Black Metropolis
CCNY (City College of New York)
Cendrars, Blaise
Chandler, Raymond
Chase, The (Auden and Isherwood)
Chaucer, Geoffrey
“Chez Moy” (Muldoon)
Chicago
Chicago Coalition of Community Organizations (CCCO)
Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage (Byron)
childhood
Childhood and Society (Erikson)
Christ Church (Oxford)
“chrysalis moment,”
Chudacoff, Howard
Ciardi, John
Civil War (U.S.)
Clampitt, Amy
Clarke, Cheryl
Cliff, Michelle
“Clonfeacle” (Muldoon)
closure
“Clothes Pit, The” (Dunn)
“Clues Down” (Compton)
coffee bars
Cohn-Bendit, Daniel
“Coleman, Brunette” (Larkin)
colleges and universities. See also individual colleges and universities
Colossus, The (Plath)
Columbia University
comic books
Compton, Shanna
confessional poetry
Connolly, Cyril
“Consider this and in our time” (Auden)
Conservative Vice Lords. See Vice Lords
Conkling, Hilda and Grace
Contact (magazine)
contemporary poetry
“Coora Flower, The” (Brooks)
Cornford, John
Corso, Gregory
counterculture. See subcultures and countercultures. See also Hebidge, Dick; MacInnes, Colin; Nuttall, Jeff; protests and protesters
Counterfeiters, The (Gide)
Cowley, Malcolm
Cox, C. B.
Crane, Hart
“Creature from the Black Lagoon, The” (Tranter)
Creeley, Robert
crossword
Crying in Early Infancy (Tranter)
“Cuba” (Muldoon)
Cummings, E. E.
“Curriculum Vitae” (Tranter)
“Cyclone, The” (Kasischke)
Damon, Maria
“Dance, The” (Larkin)
Daphne
dates and dating
Davidson, Michael
Davie, Donald
Davis, H. L.
Davis, Mary Carolyn
Dawley, David
Day by Day (Lowell)
Day-Lewis, Cecil
Dean, James
“Death of a Critic” (Lowell)
“Debbie & Co.” (Tranter)
Democratic Review
Descent of Winter, The (Williams)
“Deserts of Love” (Rimbaud)
Dial, The (magazine)
diaries
Dickinson, Emily
diction. See speech (of young people)
disco music
Discrete Series (Oppen)
Distance Learning (Sorby)
Dog Beneath the Skin, The (Auden and Isherwood)
Dolphin, The (Lowell)
Don Juan (Byron)
Donne, John
Double Dealer (magazine)
Douglas, Keith
Dove, Rita
Downs, The (school)
Downspooky (Compton)
Drake, St. Clair. See Black Metropolis
drama
Dransfield, Michael
“Dream” (Moore)
drugs
“Drug Store” (Shapiro)
Duggan, Laurie
Duncan, Robert
Dunn, Douglas
Dupee, F. W.
Dylan, Bob
Eberhart, Richard
Eden
Edwards, Kerry
Egypt
Elegy (Levis)
“Elegy for Whatever Had a Pattern in It” (Levis)
“Elegy with an Angel at Its Gate” (Levis)
Elledge, Jim
Ellis, Thomas Sayers
Eliot, T. S.
“Elizabeth” (Muldoon)
“Elvis Presley” (Gunn)
“emerging adulthood,”
Empson, William
Endymion (Keats)
“Endless Days of Sixties Sunshine, The” (Smith)
Enemies of a Bishop, The (Auden and Isherwood)
Enemies of Promise (Connolly)
Erikson, Erik
Esman, Aaron
Everett, Barbara
Evers, Medgar
exams
“Exodus” (Oppen)
exorcism
“Falling Water” (Koethe)
Farley, Paul
fascism
Fate’s Kite (Smith)
fathers
“Fatima” (Kasischke)
Faux-Monnayeurs. See Counterfeiters, The
“Fear is Hope” (Moore)
“February” (Muldoon)
Fellini, Federico
feminism. See also Beauvoir, Simone de; Friedan, Betty; Gilligan, Carol; girls and young women
“Femmes Damnées” (Baudelaire/Larkin)
Fiedler, Leslie
Field, Eugene
Fielding, Henry
film
Fire and Flower (Kasischke)
“First Communions” (Rimbaud)
“First Spring” (Lowell)
“Fission” (Graham)
Fitzgerald, F. Scott
Flaming Youth (“Fabian”)
Fletcher, Angus
Fletcher, John Gould
Florence (Italy)
football (American)
“For Archie Smith” (Lowell)
Forbes, John
“For Eugene McCarthy” (Lowell)
“For Kay Boyle” (Rukeyser)
“For the Union Dead” (Lowell)
four-letter words
“Four Notes on the Practice of Revolution” (Tranter)
Fowlie, Wallace
France
“Franklin’s Tale, The” (Waldner)
“Fresh Air” (Koch)
Freud, Sigmund
Fried, Michael
Friedan, Betty
Friedenberg, Edgar
Friedlander, Ben
Frost, Robert
Fuller, John
Fussell, Paul
“Future of English Poetic Drama, The” (Auden)
Futurism
gangs. See also Blackstone Rangers; motorcyclists; Vice Lords
“Gap” (Lowell)
Gasoline (Corso)
Gass, William
“Gay Chaps at the Bar” (Brooks)
gay men. See homosexuality
“Geese, The” (Graham)
“Generation of ’68” (Australia)
“generation X,”
“Genitive Case, A” (Waldner)
“Geography Lesson, The” (Muldoon)
Germany
“Get there if you can and see …” (Auden)
Gide, André
“GI in 1943, A” (Gunn)
Gilbert, Geoff
Gil de Biedma, Jaime
Gilligan, Carol
Gillis, John
Gimme Shelter
Ginsberg, Allen
Girl in Winter, A (Larkin)
girls and young women. See also feminism; women’s colleges
“Girl in a Library, A” (Jarrell)
“Girl of Fifteen” (Johnson)
“Girls in the Poolroom, The” (Muldoon)
girls-school stories
Glenn, Mel
“Glossolalia” (Sorby)
Glück, Louise
Goethe, J. W. von
go-go (music)
Golding, Douglas
Goldstein, Laurence
Goodman, Paul
“Gooseberry Fool” (Clampitt)
Graham, Jorie; and film theory; as student protester. See also individual works
“Grapevine, The” (Ashbery)
Great American Novel, The (Williams)
green (color). See also pastoral
Greenfeld, Liah
Greenlaw, Lavinia
Greenbank, Peggy
Green World. See pastoral
Gresham’s (school)
Grossman, Allen
Grosz, Elizabeth
Growing Up Absurd (Goodman)
Gunn, Thom; and America; and gay liberation; and soldiers; and subcultures. See also individual works; Presley, Elvis
Haley, Bill
“Half Moon” (Tranter)
Hall, G. Stanley
Hammer, Langdon
Hanawalt, Barbara
“Hard Way, The” (Lowell)
Hardwick, Elizabeth
Hardy, Thomas
Hart, Matt
Hartman, Geoffrey
“Harvard” (Lowell)
Harvard University. See also Cambridge, Mass.
Hausknecht, Gina
Hay (Muldoon)
Heaney, Seamus
Hebdige, Dick
Hebrew
Hejinian, Lyn
“Hemistitches” (Kreymborg)
Hendrix, Jimi
Henley, W. E.
Henri, Adrian
Herd, David
heroin. See drugs
heterosexuality
“Hiding Place, The” (Graham)
“High Blood” (Lowell)
“Highbrowettes” (Golding)
High on the Walls (Pickard)
high schools
“High School Confidential” (Tranter)
High Windows (Larkin)
“High Windows” (Larkin)
Hine, Daryl
Hoagland, Tony
Hoggart, Richard
Hollander, John
Holley, Margaret
Holly, Buddy
“Hollywood” (Shapiro)
Homer
Homing Devices (Waldner)
“Homing In” (Waldner)
homosexuality. See also Auden, W. H.; Gunn, Thom; Stonewall; Waldner, Liz
Hopkins, G. M.
“Hotblood on Friday” (Gunn)
Hough, Graham
Housman, A. E.
How2 (journal)
How(ever) (journal)
Howl (Ginsberg)
“How to Play Championship Tennis” (Muldoon)
Huckleberry Finn (Twain)
Hudson, Barbara
Hull
Humphrey, Hubert
“I Am 25” (Corso)
I Ching
If… (Anderson)
“Ikons” (Cannell)
Illuminations (Rimbaud)
Imagination Verses (Moxley)
“Impressions on Wax Tablets” (Kasischke)
“Incantata” (Muldoon)
indie rock
“In Lieu of the Lyre” (Moore)
In Montgomery (Brooks)
“In 1967” (Levis)
instant messaging
Interior with Sudden Joy (Shaughnessy)
“In the Mecca” (Brooks)
Ireland
Isherwood, Christopher
“It Allows a Portrait …” (Murray)
Italy
“Ivana” (Lowell)
“J. Alfred” (Rhino 39)
James, John
Jameson, Fredric
“January Morning” (Williams)
Jarrell, Randall
jazz
“Jelly-fish, A” (Moore)
Jennings, Elizabeth
“Jerry Lee Lewis’ Secret Marriage …” (Wojahn)
Jill (Larkin)
“Johnny B. Goode” (Berry)
Johnson, Don
Johnson, James Weldon
Journal of an Airman (Auden). See Orators, The
“Juke Joint” (Stafford)
junior high schools and middle schools
juvenile delinquents
Kalstone, David
Kasischke, Laura; and motherhood; as novelist. See also individual works
“Kate Fox” (Sorby)
Keats, John
Kendall, Tim
Kennedy, John F.
Kennedy, Robert F.
Kermode, Frank
Kidd, Kennethi
“kidults,”
Kincaid, James
King Henry VIII School
King, Rev. Martin Luther, Jr.
Kipling, Rudyard
Kirk, Grayson
“Kiss” (Kasischke)
“Kissing Seat, The” (Muldoon)
Koch, Kenneth
Koethe, John
Komunyakaa, Yusef
Kora in Hell (Williams)
Kreymborg, Alfred
Kristeva, Julia
Kubrick, Stanley
Kunitz, Stanley
Lacan, Jacques
Lady Chatterley’s Lover (Lawrence)
Laforgue, Jules
“Landscape Without Figures” (McGinley)
Lane, Homer
“Language of New York, A” (Oppen)
language writing. See also Hejinian, Lyn
Larchfield (school)
Larkin, Philip; early prose, see “Coleman, Brunette”; and subcultures; as undergraduate. See also individual works
“Launcelot with Bicycle” (McGinley)
Lawrence, D. H.
“Leader of the New Left” (Lowell)
Lee, Don L. (Haki R. Madhubuti)
Lee, Gypsy Rose
Lehmann, John
lesbians. See homosexuality
LeTendre, Gerard
Levertov, Denise
Levine, Judith
Levis, Larry
Lewis, Jerry Lee
Lewis, William D.
Lewis, Wyndham
liberalism
“Life-Artist, The” (Gunn)
Life Before Her Eyes, The (Kasischke)
life course
Life magazine
“Life on Mars” (Bowie)
Life Studies (Lowell)
“Lines on a Young Lady’s Photograph Album” (Larkin)
Lions and Shadows (Isherwood)
lithium carbonate
Little Review (magazine)
Liverpool Poets
“Locksley Hall” (Tennyson)
Lolita (Nabokov/Kubrick)
London
“The Lonely Street” (Williams)
Long, Robert
Longenbach, James
Longfellow, H. W.
Longley, Edna
Lorde, Audre
“Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, The” (Eliot)
“Love Songs in Age” (Larkin)
Lowell, Amy
Lowell, Harriet
Lowell, Robert; and Chicago; and Columbia University; early works; and Harriet Lowell; and 1960s; and 1970s; at Pentagon; style (in Notebook)
Loy, Mina
Lu, Pamela
“Lycidas” (Milton)
Lyon, Sue
lyric (poetry)
Macdonald, Dwight
MacInnes, Colin
MacNeice, Louis
Mademoiselle (magazine)
Madge, Charles
Madhubuti, Haki R. See Lee, Don L.
“Maiden Name” (Larkin)
Mailer, Norman
Mainei
Makin, Peter
“Making the Move” (Muldoon)
maleness and masculinity. See also boys and young men
Man with Night Sweats, The (Gunn)
Marabou (Yeh)
“March, The” (I and II) (Lowell)
“Marching” (Lowell)
marijuana. See drugs
Marinetti, F. T.
marriage
Mars
Martin, Robert K.
Mason, Wyatt
Matinées (Mlinko)
Maverick Room, The (Ellis)
“May” (Lowell)
McCarthy, Eugene
McCarthy, Joseph, and McCarthyism
McDonald, Peter
McGinley, Phyllis; and motherhood; and teenage girls; and World War II. See also individual works
McGough, Roger
“Medgar Evers” (Brooks)
“Meditation in a Coffee Bar” (Hough)
Meeting the British (Muldoon)
“Megalopsych, The” (Auden)
Melly, George
Melville, Herman
“Memorial Day” (Lowell)
Mencken, H. L.
Mendelson, Edward
menstruation
Merrill, James
Mexico
middle schools. See junior high schools and middle schools
Millay, Edna St. Vincent
Miller, Cristanne
Mill on the Floss, The (George Eliot)
Miller, Henry
Milton, John
Mintz, Steven
misery
Mississippi
Mitchell, Adrian
Mitchison, Naomi
Mlinko, Ange
modernism
Moly (Duncan)
Moly (Gunn)
“Monocle de Mon Oncle, Le” (Stevens)
moon
Moore, Marianne; as Dial editor; as undergraduate. See also individual works
Morden Tower
“More a Man Has, The More a Man Wants, The” (Muldoon)
Morrison, Van
Mortimer, John
Moss, Thylias
mothers
motorcyclists
movies. See film
Moxley, Jennifer
“Mrs. Albion You’ve Got a Lovely Daughter” (Henri)
Muldoon, Paul; and Gypsy Rose Lee; and narrative; and postmodernism; reception; and the Troubles. See also individual works
“Mules” (Muldoon)
Mulvey, Laura
Munson, Gorham
Murray, Les
My Life (Hejinian)
“My Lost Youth” (Longfellow)
My Sad Captains (Gunn)
Mystery Train (Wojahn)
NAACP
“Narcissus” (Auden)
narrative
Nash, Ilana
“Nasturtium” (Gunn)
Naylor, Paul
“Needle’s Eye, A” (Yeats)
Neill, A. S.
netball
Neubauer, John
New American Poetry, The (Allen)
New Australian Poetry, The (Tranter)
Newcastle-upon-Tyne
New England
“New England” (Williams)
New Jersey
New Left. See radicals and radical politics. See also Students for a Democratic Society
“New Mutants, The” (Fiedler)
“New People, The” (Oppen)
New Verse (magazine)
New Weather (Muldoon)
“New Year’s Eve” (Lowell)
“New York” (Gunn)
New York City. See also Columbia University
New York Review of Books
“Next Day” (Jarrell)
“Night Before the Night Before Christmas, The” (Jarrell)
“Night Sweat” (Lowell)
Nims, John Frederick
“Nineteen” (Lowell)
1910s
1920s
1930s
“1930s” (Lowell)
1940s
1950s
1960s
1970s
1980s
1990s
“No One Shone There” (Mlinko)
North Dakota
Notebook (Lowell)
novels. See also narrative
“Novices” (Moore)
“Now from my window-sill I watch the night” (Auden)
Nuttall, Jeff
obscenity. See four-letter words; Lady Chatterley’s Lover; pornography
Observations (Moore
ode
“Ode” (Auden)
“Ode on a Grecian Urn” (Keats)
“Ode to the West Wind” (Shelley)
Of Being Numerous (Oppen)
“Office Hours” (Gunn)
“Ogre, The” (Williams)
O’Hara, Frank
Olds, Sharon
“On Being Busted at Fifty” (Fiedler)
“On Being Twenty-Six” (Larkin)
“On the Move” (Gunn)
Oppen, George; at Altamont; and San Francisco; and students. See also individual works
Oppen, Mary
Oppenheim, James
Orators, The (Auden)
“Orotava Road, The” (Bunting)
Ortega y Gasset, Jose
Osborn, Andrew
O’Sullivan, Johni
Others (magazine)
“Our Youth” (Ashbery)
Owen, Wilfred
“Owl’s Clover” (Stevens)
Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century English Verse (Larkin)
Oxford University
“Pacification of Columbia” (Lowell)
Paid on Both Sides (Auden)
Pamela: A Novel (Lu)
Pamperers, The (Loy)
pantoum
Papini, Giovanni
“Parallel Lines” (Tranter)
Paris
Paris Commune
Parker, Charlie
“Parking Lot with Trees, A” (Koethe)
parody and satire
Partisan Review
“Part of a Novel, Part of a Poem, Part of a Play” (Moore)
Passages of Joy, The (Gunn)
pastoral
Patten, Brian
Peck, John
“Pedestrian” (Oppen)
peer groups and peer culture. See also subcultures and countercultures; “teenager” (word)
Pentagon
Perloff, Marjorie
“Perlun” (Loy)
Persephone
“Peter Kip to the High School” (Williams)
Petrarch
Pickard, Tom
“Picnic” (Graham)
Plath, Sylvia
plays. See drama
Pleiades
Podhoretz, Norman
Poems (Auden). See also individual poems
“Poet at Seventeen, The” (Levis)
Poetry (magazine)
“Poetry Wreck, The” (Shapiro)
“Poets at Seven Years Old” (Rimbaud)
Poirier, Richard
police
pool
“pop” (1960s idea)
pop music. See disco music; go-go; indie rock; jazz; peer culture; “pop” (1960s idea); punk rock; rock music; subcultures
“Popular Songs” (Ashbery)
pornography
“Portrait of Girl with Comic Book” (McGinley)
postmodernism. See Ashbery, John; contemporary poetry; modernism; uncertainty
Pound, Ezra
“Practice” (Ellis)
Prelude, The (Wordsworth)
Presley, Elvis
“Profumo” (Muldoon)
Profumo scandal
Prometheus Bound (Lowell)
Provincetown, Mass.
Provincetown Players
protests and protesters. See also radicals and radical politics
Providence, R.I.
public schools (British elite schools)
punk rock
“Quiet” (Kasischke)
Quoof (Muldoon)
radicals and radical politics
“Radio Traffic” (Tranter)
Ransom, John Crowe
“Rapunzel” (Sexton)
“Ravine” (Kasischke)
“Reasons for Attendance” (Larkin)
“Rebellion” (Lowell)
rebellion and revolution. See also radicals and radical politics
Rebel Without a Cause. See also Dean, James
“Recuerdo” (Millay)
Red Movie (Tranter)
Region of Unlikeness (Graham)
“Region of Unlikeness, The” (Graham)
“Remarks on Rimbaud as Magician” (Blum)
“Renascence” (Millay)
resistance. See Kincaid, James. See also rebellion and revolution
“Restoration, The” (Lowell)
“Reticence and Volubility” (Moore)
“Reveals” (Anderson)
Revolt Into Style (Melly)
revolution. See rebellion and revolution
Rexroth, Kenneth
Reznikoff, Charles
“RFK” (Lowell)
Rhino
rhyme
Rich, Adrienne
Ricks, Christopher
Rickword, Edgell
Ridge, Lola
“Right Arm, The” (Muldoon)
Riley, James Whitcomb
Rilke, Rainer Maria
Rimbaud, Arthur; as prototypical adolescent; and Tranter
“Rimbaud” (Auden)
“Rimbaud and the Modernist Heresy” (Tranter)
“Rimbaud in Sydney” (Tranter)
“Riot” (Brooks)
Riot Grrrl
riots. See also protests and protesters
“Rites for Cousin Vit, The” (Brooks)
rock music
“Rock Music” (Murray)
Rodker, John
Rodriguez, Richard
roller skating
Rolling Stones
“Roman” (Rimbaud)
Romanticism
Rome (Italy)
Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare)
Roosevelt, Theodore
Rosenfeld, Paul
Rosenthal, M. L.
Ross, Kristin
Rousseau, J.-J.
“Route” (Oppen)
Rowe, Noel
Rudd, Mark
rugby
Rukeyser, Muriel
Rutherford (N.J.) High School
Sad Heart at the Supermarket, A (Jarrell)
“Sadie and Maud” (Brooks)
“Sad Steps” (Larkin)
Saison en enfer. See Season in Hell, A
St. Mark’s (school)
“St. Mark’s, 1933” (Lowell)
Salinger, J. D.
Sally’s Hair (Koethe)
San Antonio, Tex.
San Francisco, Ca.
San Francisco State University
“San Sepolcro” (Graham)
Sapphic stanzas
Sappho
Sara Crewe (Burnett)
Sarah Lawrence College
satire. See parody
Saving the Appearances (Waldner)
Saxton, Ruth
Schiller, Friedrich
Schoenberger, Nancy
“Scholar-Gipsy, The” (Arnold)
school magazines
schoolmasters
schools. See also high schools; junior high schools and middle schools; public schools (British elite schools); colleges and universities
Schuyler, James
Schweik, Susan
Scrake of Dawn, The (Muldoon)
“Seals” (Lowell)
Seascape: Needle’s Eye (Oppen)
Season in Hell, A (Rimbaud)
Seay, James
“Second Air Force” (Jarrell)
“Secret Amplitude” (Koethe)
Secret Stars
Sedbergh (school)
Selected Poems (Moore)
selfhood. See also lyric (poetry)
sentimental. See Schiller, Friedrich
sestina
“7, Middagh Street” (Muldoon)
sex and sexual activity. See also heterosexuality; homosexuality
Sexton, Anne
Shapiro, Karl; in 1960s; and World War II. See also individual works
Shakespeare, William
Shaughnessy, Brenda
Shelley, Percy Bysshe
Shepheardes Calendar (Spenser)
“Shot Down at Night” (Nims)
“Shrimpy Girl Talk” (Waldner)
Sidney, Sir Phillip
Sinclair, Iain
“Skateboard” (Gunn)
skateboards
Sky Lounge (Bibbins)
“Slam, Dunk & Hook” (Komunyakaa)
slang. See speech (of young people)
slowworm
Smith, Barbara Herrnstein
Smith, Bruce
Smith, Dave
soldiers
Solomon, Carl
“Some San Francisco Poems” (Oppen)
Some Trees (Ashbery)
“Song in the Front Yard, A” (Brooks)
“Song of a Girl,”
“Songs to Joannes” (Loy)
sonnets
“Soonest Mended” (Ashbery)
Sorbonne
Sorby, Angela
“Sorrows of Carrie M., The” (Kasischke)
Sorrows of Young Werther, The (Goethe)
Soul Searchers. See also go-go
“Sound Mind, Sound Body” (Lowell)
“Sound System” (Wallace)
“South Coast After Rain” (Tranter)
South (U.S.)
Southworth, James
Spacks, Patricia Meyer
“Spain” (Auden)
speech (of young people)
Spender, Stephen
Spenser, Edmund
Spiegelman, Willard
“Spinster” (Plath)
“Spiritus” (Kasischke)
sports and athletic games. See also individual sports
Spring and All (Williams)
“Spring Break” (Kasischke)
Springhall, John
Stafford, William
Stalky & Co. (Kipling)
Stammers, John
“The Steeple-Jack” (Moore)
Stevens, Wallace
Stonewall
Street in Bronzeville, A (Brooks)
“Street Song” (Gunn)
“Stuart Rieger” (Glenn)
“Student” (Lowell)
“Student, The” (Moore)
“Student Prince, The” (Tranter)
student protesters. See protests and protesters; radicals and radicalism
student radicals. See radicals and radicalism
Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
“Students Gather, The” (Oppen)
subcultures and countercultures. See also Hebdige, Dick; peer groups and peer culture
Subhuman Redneck Poems (Murray)
suburbs
“Sunday Evening” (Koethe)
“Sunday Morning” (Stevens)
“Sundays of Satin-Legs Smith, The” (Brooks)
Swarbrick, Andrew
swear words. See four-letter words
Sweet Nothings (Elledge)
swimming
Swiss, Thomas
Sydney (Australia)
syllabics
syntax
Synge, J. M.
“Take Me Out to the Go-Go” (Ellis)
Tale of a Sky-Blue Dress (Moss)
“Tale of a Tub” (Plath)
Talks to Parents and Teachers (Lane)
Tanner, Tony
Taylor, Charles
teachers. See schoolmasters
“teenager” (word)
“Teen Spies” (Yeh)
tennis
“Thanksgiving” (Lowell)
“Thank Y’All for Appreciating My Animals” (Compton)
“These Winds” (Lowell)
“Thirteen” (Lowell)
“This Be the Verse” (Larkin)
“This Golden Summer” (Lowell)
This In Which (Oppen)
“This Lunar Beauty” (Auden)
This Quarter (magazine)
This Side of Paradise (Fitzgerald)
Thomas, Dylan
“Thomas Prologizes” (Auden)
“Three Representations of Peacetime” (Mlinko)
“Through the Night” (Lowell)
Times Three (McGinley)
“To an Athlete Dying Young” (Housman)
“To an Intra-mural Rat” (Moore)
“To Elsie” (Williams)
Tom Jones (Fielding)
“Torturer’s Apprenticeship, A” (Murray)
Transformations (Sexton)
“Transiberian Prose” (Cendrars)
Tranter, John; and Generation of ‘68; and Murray; and Rimbaud. See also individual works
trauma
Trouble at Willow Gables (Larkin)
Troubles (Northern Ireland conflict)
Trow, George W. S.
tweens
“Twelve Dancing Princesses, The” (Sexton)
“Twice” (Muldoon)
“Two Girls” (Kasischke)
“Two Sisters of Persephone” (Plath)
“Ugly Sister” (Larkin)
Ulysses
uncertainty and instability
Under Berlin (Tranter)
“Under Saturn” (Muldoon)
“Under Saturn” (Yeats)
universities. See colleges and universities
University of California–Berkeley. See Berkeley, Ca.
University of Hull. See Hull
Upward, Edward
Uses of Literacy, The (Hoggart)
“Valediction Forbidding Mourning, A” (Donne)
“Valedictorian” (McGinley)
Valens, Richie
“Values in Use” (Moore)
Vanishing Adolescent, The (Friedenberg)
Vassar College
Lord Vaux, Thomas
Velvet Underground
Vendler, Helen
Vice Lords
Vietnam War
Villon, Francois
“Virgin in a Tree” (Plath)
Voyage to Pagany, A (Williams)
Waldner, Liz
“Wall, The” (Brooks)
Wallace, Ronald
Walsh, Ernest
war. See soldiers. See also Civil War (U.S.), Vietnam War, World War I, World War II
“War Against the Young, The” (Poirier)
Washington, D.C.
Wasley, Aidan
“Ways, Truth, Lights …” (Waldner)
“Well of Lycopolis, The” (Bunting)
“We Real Cool” (Brooks)
Wesleyan University (Connecticut)
“What Are We Writing For?” (Larkin/“Coleman”)
“What’s So Funny ‘Bout Peace, Love and Understanding?” (Lowe/Costello/ Long)
“What the Chairman Told Tom” (Bunting)
“When I Was ‘Bout Ten …” (Moss)
“When There Was Time” (Koethe)
White, Barbara
White, Emily
White, Kevin
White Bird in a Blizzard (Kasischke)
Whitman, Walt
Whitter, J. G.
Who, The
Who’s Who Vivid (Hart)
“Wicker Basket, A” (Creeley)
Wideman, John Edgar
Widmer, Ted
Wilbur, Richard
Williams, Jonathan
Williams, William Carlos; and Carnevali; as critic; experimental prose; and Marianne Moore. See also individual works
Williamson, Alan
Wills, Claire
Wilson, Edmund
Wiman, Christian
“Winter Solstice” (Waldner)
Wojahn, David
women’s colleges
Woods, Gregory
World War I
World War II
Wordsworth, William
“Wreck of the Deutschland, The” (Hopkins)
Wright, C. D.
Wright, James
“Writing” (Auden)
“Yarrow” (Muldoon)
yearbooks
Yeats, W. B.
Yeh, Jane
Yenser, Stephen
Yippies
Young America
Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA)
Young Men’s Hebrew Association (YMHA)
“Young Ones, The” (Jennings)
“Young World, The” (Oppenheim)
“Yours, O Youth” (Williams)
youth culture. See peer groups and peer culture; subcultures and coutntercultures
Youth: Poetry of Today (magazine)
“Youth Sings to the Sea” (Bynner)
Zukofsky, Louis