The Oxford Book of American Verse

New York: Oxford University Press, 1950. seventh printing. Blue cloth Octavo in black dust jacket and archival mylar wrap; lvi, 1132 pages; 19 cm Fine; sturdy with clean, crisp pages; very slightly rubbed corners; dust jacket has light shelf-wear to edges, with a few small chips and tears to corners. Owner name and address hand-written neatly in ink to front free endpaper. . hardcover.

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.Standard No: National Library: (AMICUS)000000566304 LCCN: 50-9826Abstract: 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. SUBJECT(S)Descriptor: American poetry.