"The voice of America rings out loud and clear in this unique anthology of great American poetry."

Editors Oscar Williams and Edwin Honig concentrate on the work of twenty major American poets. They include sizable selections from the poetry of: Edward Taylor, Wallace Stevens, Ralph Woldo Emerson, William Carlos Williams, Henry Wadsworth Longfello, Ezra Pound, Walt Whitman, Marianne Moore, Edgar Allan Poe, John Crowe Ransom, Emily Dickinson, Edna St Vincent Millay, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Archibald MacLeish, Stephen Crane, EE Cummings, Robert Frost, Hart Crane, Vachel Lindsay, and WH Auden.