“What an achievement, these sixty years of poetry! In whatever terms we Americans regard the rest of our recent history, the score of things done well and done ill, this much at least we have done superlatively.”—Hayden Carruth
This famous anthology includes the works of more than 130 major American poets of the modern period—Robert Frost, Paul Goodman, Carl Sandburg, T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Allen Ginsberg, and Gwendolyn Brooks among them—along with short biographies of each.
“Not only the best on its period, I think, but is even perhaps safe from the competition of rivals.”—Robert Lowell
- ISBN10 0553262637
- ISBN13 9780553262636
- Publish Date 1 September 1983
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Random House USA Inc
- Imprint Bantam Books Inc
- Format Paperback (US Mass Market)
- Pages 768
- Language English
- URL https://penguinrandomhouse.com/books/isbn/9780553262636