The Treasury of American Poetry

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1978. Hardcover. Used - Near Fine/Very Good. 5.75"x8.5". 838 pp. BCE Blue boards. Navy vinyl spine w/gilt letters. Jacket by Patricia Saville Voehl. Author index. Index of Title. Index of First Lines. T18 bottom of last page. DJ #1435. Author photo by Tess Hoffman. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean and bright. Nox x-library, unclipped, & unmarked. Small chips and tears along edges of DJ. Slight tone to pages. 800 Masterpieces in one volume! 114 American poets. The title of this anthology suggests the thrust of its contents: The treasures inside are the definition of a country characterized by diversity, power, stability, and strife. Because of the complexity of American life and of America's heritage, it is easier to explain what American poetry is not than to explain what it is. There is, howerver, no denying that the myriad events and personalities which produced this country provoked and shaped a poetic heritage which can only be defined as a national treasure. Not every poem in the anthology is a jewel in the literal sense, but each one, verbal emerald as well as verbal opal, has its intrinsic quality and character. Collectively they shape a unique and haphazard crown for a monarchless country.
Anne Bradstreet, Edward Taylor, Phillip Freneau, Phyllis Wheatley, Joel Barlow, Royall Tyler, 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, Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, Frederick Goddard Tuckerman, Emily Dickerson, Emily Dickinson, Edgar Lee Masters, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Stephen Crane, Robert Frost, Gertrude Stein, Carl Sandbur, Vachel Lindsay, Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, Ezra Pound, H.D. (Hilda Doolittle), Robinson Jeffers, Marianne Moore, T.S. Eliot, John Crowe Ransom, Conrad Aiken,Claude McKay, Archibald MacLeish, Edna St. Vincent Millay, E.E. Cummings, Hart Crane, Allen Tate, Langston Hughes, Ogden Nash, Countee Cullen...
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