The poets and poetry of America : with an historical introduction
Rufus W. Griswold (Editor), George Hewitt Cushman (Engraver)
One of the most important American poetry anthologies of the nineteenth century, including the works of nearly every major and minor poet of the day, selected by Edgar Allan Poe's future literary executor. Poets included are Longfellow, Lowell, Whittier, Holmes, Bryant, Emerson, Jones Very, William Gilmore Simms, Christopher P. Cranch, Richard Henry Dana, and an impressive selection of female poets now mostly forgotten: Sigourney, Gould, Brooks, Mrs. Seba Smith, Hall, Embury, Ellett, Dinnies, Welby, Hooper, Davidson
Print Book, English, 1845
Sixth edition, revised, with illustrations View all formats and editions
Carey and Hart, Chesnut Street, Philadelphia, 1845
xxvii, 476 pages, 6 unnumbered leaves of plates : portraits, illustrations ; 24 cm
1130882656
Added title page, engraved: The poets and poetry of America / by Rufus Willmot [sic] Griswold. Engraving signed: G.H. Cushman