Oxford Book of American Verse

By F.O. Matthiessen

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, USA
• Length: 1184 Pages
• Weight: 1.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.4" x 5.3" x 7.6"
• Age Range: 3 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 9 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.