Yes, Robinson definitely belongs on the list. I'm hoping someone'll nominate Yvor Winters, Allen Tate, J.C. Ransom, and Robert Penn Warren, all hugely important; as well as Spender, Empson, and MacNeice, across the pond.
And Edgar Lee Masters. His Spoon River Anthology was all in free verse, but he wrote a lot of fine verse in traditional forms. Very under-read and underrated.
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