Oxford Book of American Verse

by F.O. Matthiessen

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195000498
• ISBN13: 9780195000498
• Release Date: December 1950
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 1184 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.4" x 5.3" x 7.6"
• Age Range: 3 years and up
• Grade Range: Preschool and higher

Customer Reviews

Good Collection of American Poetry

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.