- Authors:
- Donald Hall (editor), Allen Tate, Anne Bradstreet, Archibald MacLeish, Duncan Campbell Scott, E. E. Cummings, E. J. Pratt, Earle Birney, Edgar Allan Poe, Edgar Lee Masters, Edward Taylor, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Elizabeth Bishop, Emily Dickinson, Ezra Pound, F. R. Scott, Frederick Goddard Tuckerman, Hart Crane, Henry David Thoreau, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Herman Melville, Hilda Doolittle (Pseudonym: H. D.), Irving Layton, John Berryman, John Crowe Ransom, John Greenleaf Whittier, Jones Very, Marianne Moore, Phelps Putnam, Philip Freneau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Richard Eberhart, Richard Wilbur, Robert Frost, Robert Lowell, Robinson Jeffers, Sidney Lanier, Theodore Roethke, Trumbull Stickney, Vachel Lindsay, Wallace Stevens, Walt Whitman, William Carlos Williams and William Cullen Bryant
- Language:
- English
- Publisher:
- Faber and Faber
- 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.
- Has read?
- Yes
- Table of Contents:
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- 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