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Full title	American Poetry: An Introductory Anthology ^[permalink]
Language	English
Author	Donald Hall (author)
Publisher	Faber and Faber
Categories	Anthology and poetry
Publication year	1991
Original publication year	1969
Pages	192
Synopsis	As the title says, this is an introductory anthology to American poetry. The introduction devotes around three pages to a synopsis of a selection of the authors' lives, and the book itself has a handful of poems from each author.
Review	This book is pretty dated, but I still enjoyed the selection.
Structure	[Toggle visibility] Acknowledgements Introduction Anne Bradstreet Edward Taylor Philip Freneau William Cullen Bryant Ralph Waldo Emerson Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Edgar Allan Poe John Greenleaf Whittier Jones Very Henry David Thoreau Herman Melville Walt Whitman Frederick Goddard Tuckerman Emily Dickinson Sidney Lanier Duncan Campbell Scott Edgar Lee Masters Edwin Arlington Robinson Trumbull Stickney Robert Frost Vachel Lindsay Wallace Stevens William Carlos Williams E. J. Pratt Ezra Pound H. D. Robinson Jeffers Marianne Moore John Crowe Ransom Archibald MacLeish Phelps Putnam E. E. Cummings F. R. Scott Hart Crane Allen Tate Earle Birney Richard Eberhart Theodore Roethke Elizabeth Bishop John Berryman Irving Layton Robert Lowell Richard Wilbur Index of Titles and First Lines