Bibliograph

The Oxford book of American verse, chosen and with an introd. by F.O. Matthiessen

Type

Label

The Oxford book of American verse, chosen and with an introd. by F.O. Matthiessen

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 1107-1115)

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The Oxford book of American verse

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

270204

Responsibility statement

chosen and with an introd. by F.O. Matthiessen

Summary

Fifty-one poets are represented in this anthology which covers the whole range of American poetry from colonial times to the present. The greater part is devoted to the best work of the past fifty years

Table Of Contents

Anne Bradstreet -- Edward Taylor -- Philip Freneau -- Joel Barlow -- William Cullen Bryant -- Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- John Greenleaf Whittier -- Oliver Wendell Holmes -- Edgar Allan Poe -- Jones Very -- Henry David Thoreau -- James Russell Lowell -- Walt Whitman -- Herman Melville -- Henry Timrod -- Emily Dickinson -- Sidney Lanier -- William Vaughn Moody -- Edwin Arlington Robinson -- Edgar Lee Masters -- Trumbull Stickney -- Amy Lowell -- Robert Frost -- Carl Sandburg -- Vachel Lindsay -- Wallace Stevens -- William Carlos Williams -- Elinor Wylie -- Ezra Pound -- H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) -- Marianne Moore -- Robinson Jeffers -- T.S. Eliot -- John Crowe Ransom -- Conrad Aiken -- John Peale Bishop -- Edna St. Vincent Millay -- Archibald Macleish -- Phelps Putman -- E.E. Cummings -- Stephen Vincent Benét -- Hart Crane -- Allen Tate -- Howard Baker -- Robert Penn Warren -- W.H. Auden -- Delmore Schwartz -- Karl Shapiro -- Randall Jarrell -- Robert Lowell

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