American poetry and prose

Foerster, Norman 1887-1972 (Author). Smith, John, 1580-1631 (Added Author). Bradford, William, 1590-1657 (Added Author). Winthrop, John, 1588-1649 (Added Author). Williams, Roger, 1604-1604?-1683 (Added Author). Bradstreet, Anne, 1612-1612?-1672 (Added Author). Wigglesworth, Michael, 1631-1705 (Added Author). Taylor, Edward, 1642-1729 (Added Author). Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728 (Added Author). Sewall, Samuel, 1652-1730 (Added Author). Edwards, Jonathan, 1703-1758 (Added Author). Woolman, John, 1720-1772 (Added Author). Byrd, William, 1539-1539 or 1540-1623. (Added Author). Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 (Added Author). St. John de Crèvecoeur, J. Hector, 1735-1813 (Added Author). Dickinson, John, 1732-1808 (Added Author). Seabury, Samuel, 1729-1796 (Added Author). Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809 (Added Author). Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 (Added Author). Hamilton, Alexander, 1757-1804 (Added Author). Madison, James, 1751-1836 (Added Author). Trumbull, John, 1750-1831 (Added Author). Dwight, Timothy, 1752-1817 (Added Author). Barlow, Joel, 1754-1812 (Added Author). Freneau, Philip Morin, 1752-1832 (Added Author). Channing, William Ellery, 1780-1842 (Added Author). Irving, Washington, 1783-1859 (Added Author). Cooper, James Fenimore, 1789-1851 (Added Author). Bryant, William Cullen, 1794-1878 (Added Author). Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 (Added Author). Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882 (Added Author). Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862 (Added Author). Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864 (Added Author). Melville, Herman, 1819-1891 (Added Author). Whittier, John Greenleaf, 1807-1892 (Added Author). Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882 (Added Author). Lowell, James Russell, 1819-1891 (Added Author). Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894 (Added Author). Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 (Added Author). Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 (Added Author). Timrod, Henry, 1828-1867 (Added Author). Lanier, Sidney, 1842-1881 (Added Author). Ward, Artemus, 1834-1867 (Added Author). Billings, Josh, 1818-1885 (Added Author). Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 (Added Author). Harte, Bret, 1836-1902 (Added Author). Cable, George Washington, 1844-1925 (Added Author). Harris, Joel Chandler, 1848-1908 (Added Author). Jewett, Sarah Orne, 1849-1909 (Added Author). Freeman, Mary Eleanor Wilkins, 1852-1930 (Added Author). Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920 (Added Author). James, Henry, 1843-1916 (Added Author). Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886 (Added Author). Dunne, Finley Peter, 1867-1936 (Added Author). Moody, William Vaughn, 1869-1910 (Added Author). Adams, Henry, 1838-1918 (Added Author). Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937 (Added Author). Garland, Hamlin, 1860-1940 (Added Author). Crane, Stephen, 1871-1900 (Added Author). Norris, Frank, 1870-1902 (Added Author). Dreiser, Theodore, 1871-1945 (Added Author). Robinson, Edwin Arlington, 1869-1935 (Added Author). Frost, Robert, 1874-1963 (Added Author). Lowell, Amy, 1874-1925 (Added Author). Millay, Edna St. Vincent, 1892-1950 (Added Author). Lindsay, Vachel, 1879-1931 (Added Author). Sandburg, Carl, 1878-1967 (Added Author). Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972 (Added Author). Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965 (Added Author). Jeffers, Robinson, 1887-1962 (Added Author). Benét, Stephen Vincent, 1898-1943 (Added Author). MacLeish, Archibald, 1892-1982 (Added Author). Stevens, Wallace, 1879-1955 (Added Author). Crane, Hart, 1899-1932 (Added Author). O'Neill, Eugene, 1888-1953 (Added Author). Cather, Willa, 1873-1947 (Added Author). Anderson, Sherwood, 1876-1941 (Added Author). Lewis, Sinclair, 1885-1951 (Added Author). Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott), 1896-1940 (Added Author). Dos Passos, John, 1896-1970 (Added Author). Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961 (Added Author). Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968 (Added Author). Wolfe, Thomas, 1900-1938 (Added Author). Porter, Katherine Anne, 1890-1980 (Added Author). Faulkner, William, 1897-1962 (Added Author). Ransom, John Crowe, 1888-1974 (Added Author). Williams, William Carlos, 1883-1963 (Added Author). Cummings, E. E. (Edward Estlin), 1894-1962 (Added Author). Moore, Marianne, 1887-1972 (Added Author). Shapiro, Karl, 1913-2000 (Added Author).

Record details

Physical Description: 1664 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
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Edition: Fourth edition, complete.
Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, [1962]
Copyright: ©1962.

Content descriptions

General Note:

Includes index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Footnote on criticism / H. L. Mencken -- The critic and American Life / Irving Babbitt -- The criterion / Paul Elmer More -- Symbolism / Edmund Wilson -- The reading of modern poetry / Cleanth Brooks and Robert Penn Warren -- Poets without laurels / John Crowe Ransom -- Bells for John Whiteside's daughter / John Crowe Ransom -- Address to the scholars of New England / John Crowe Ransom -- Tract / William Carlos Williams -- The yachts / William Carlos Williams -- a wind has blown / e.e. cummings -- in Just-spring / e.e. cummings -- Buffalo Bill's defunct / e.e. cummings -- somewhere i have never travelled / e.e. cummings -- may my heart alsays / e.e. cummings -- all ignorance / e.e. cummings -- The steeple-jack / Marianne Moore -- In distrust of merits / Marianne Moore -- University / Karl Shapiro -- Hollywood / Karl Shapiro -- Drug store / Karl Shapiro -- Elegy for a dead soldier / Karl Shapiro -- The conscientious objector / Karl Shapiro --