The Harvard Book of Contemporary American Poetry

By: Vendler, Helen H.

Book Overview

Gathers postwar poetry by thirty-five top U.S. poets, including Stevens, Hughes, Rich, Plath, Jarrell, Berryman, Dickey, Ginsberg, Merwin, and Sexton.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674373405
• ISBN13: 9780674373402
• Release Date: January 1970
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 1.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.3" x 10.8"

Customer Reviews

Good for getting a sense of the period

This anthology will give you a sense of the serious type of poetry written recently in America. That means like Whitman, Eliot, Auden, and these kinds of names. This book moves basically from Stevens to the present. It will give you a good feel for each of the poets represented, and if you like what you find you can go look into their work. The introduction is great as well.

Rated as essential by The Columbia Granger's Index to Poetry

According to the preface to The Columbia Granger's Index to Poetry (I am looking at the 10th edition), they choose 150 poetry anthologies to index for each edition and then choose 30 of those anthologies as the most important for even small libraries to purchase. This book was chosen as one of those 30--so it must have something going for it!