The Oxford Book of American Verse Chosen and with an Introduction by F. O. Matthiessen (Oxford Books of Verse)
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Book Overview
A worthy companion to The Oxford Book of English Verse, this anthology covers, in 571 selections, the whole range of American poetry from colonial times; more than half of it is devoted to the best work of the period from 1900 to 1950. Fifty-one poets represented--deliberately fewer than in most anthologies, so that sufficient space can be devoted to each poet to afford a real understanding of his or her work. More recent and less well-known poets are represented wherever possible by works of some length rather than by a scattering of short poems. Brief biographical notes at the end enable the reader to know in what volume of the poet's work each poem originally appeared.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0195000498
ISBN13:9780195000498
Release Date:December 1950
Publisher:Oxford University Press
Length:1184 Pages
Weight:1.99 lbs.
Dimensions:7.6" x 2.4" x 5.3"
Age Range:14 years and up
Grade Range:Grade 9 and higher
Customer Reviews
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Good Collection of American Poetry
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 25 years ago
Goes up to the middle of the 20th C. (Has Sandburg and Stevens but not Ginsburg and Giovanni).A nice volume that I refer to often, packs a thousand pages and fits in my hand. Nicely portable for so much text. Organized in chronological order of poets' dates of birth.
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