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“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
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
Product Details
| Publisher | Bantam |
| Publish Date | September 01, 1983 |
| Pages | 768 |
| Language | English |
| Type |  Paperback / softback |
| EAN/UPC | 9780553262636 |
| Dimensions | 6.8 X 4.2 X 1.3 inches | 0.8 pounds |
About the Author
Hayden Carruth (1921–2008) lived for many years in northern Vermont, then moved to upstate New York, where he taught at Syracuse University. He won the National Book Award for Scrambled Eggs & Whiskey, and his Collected Shorter Poems received the National Book Critics Circle Award.
Reviews
"Not only the best on its period, I think, but it is even perhaps safe from the competition of rivals."
--Robert Lowell
"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
--Robert Lowell
"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
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