The Mentor Book of Major American Poets
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Brand: Penguin Group USAEditor: Oscar Williams
Editor: Edwin Honig
Edition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1962-07-01
ISBN: 0451627911
Number of pages: 536
Publisher: Signet
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Book Review: The great American poets
Summary: 5 Stars
This work contains samples of many outstanding American poets and also of the great American poets. In my own feeling the great American poets are few in number. Whitman, Dickinson , Wallace Stevens , Eliot ( if he is an American) and on the borderline Poe Frost and Cummings. This anthology which contains works only up until the early sixties does not thus include today's most well- known active poets. But in my feeling( and it is only that ) these poets do not come to the level of their great predecessors. And here I think Emerson's judgment is correct and the one poet who most embodies the spirit of America at least in its most expansive phase is Whitman.
This anthology though contains the work of many very good poets , and thus any real reader of it will certainly have a true idea and feeling of what American poetry is about.
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A compact anthology of 3 centuries of poetry by 20 great American poets.Criticism & Theory Books
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