Synopses & Reviews
This carefully compiled large print edition.offers a broad cross-section of beloved American verse, ranging from the earliest works in the genre by Anne Bradstreet and Phillis Wheatley to the 20th-century poetry of Wallace Stevens and William Carlos Williams. Selections include "The Children's Hour" and "Paul Revere's Ride" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; "Annabel Lee" and "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe; Walt Whitman's "I Hear America Singing"; Emily Dickinson's "Because I could not stop for Death" and "Success is counted sweetest"; "The Road Not Taken" and "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening," by Robert Frost; Carl Sandburg's "Chicago" and "Fog"; and many more — including works by Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, Stephen Crane, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and many others.
Synopsis
This collection of beloved American poems ranges from the earliest examples of the genre by Anne Bradstreet and Phillis Wheatley to the 20th-century verse of Wallace Stevens and William Carlos Williams. Selections include famous poems by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Edgar Allan Poe, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, Carl Sandburg, T. S. Eliot, and many others.