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by: Hayden Carruth
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 811.508
EAN: 9780553262636
ISBN: 0553262637
Label: Bantam
Manufacturer: Bantam
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 768
Publication Date: September 01, 1983
Publisher: Bantam
Release Date: September 01, 1983
Sales Rank: 290292
Studio: Bantam
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Product Description:
This famous anthology includes the works of more than 130 major American poets of the modern period--Robert Frost, Paul Goodman, Carl Sandburg and Gwendolyn Brooks among them--along with short biographies of each.
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Rating:  - Outstanding service
The book was in excellent condition. It was sent on time. Outstanding.
Rating:  - great voices within
I purchased this anthology because I love poetry and because I wanted a primer for some college American lit classes. I did get a good book out of the deal, but the latter expectation was never fully satisfied. If you're deciding whether to invest in a collection of "American Poetry of the Twentieth Century," there are some things to consider.
First, it should more aptly be subtitled, "American Poetry of the Mid-Twentieth Century." This anthology was compiled in 1970 with the bulk of ... Read More
Rating: - Worth Buying Twice
I recently purchased my second one of these, because I wore out the first one.
Even if you are untrained in poetry, as I am, (even if you are an engineer, as I am), you will find poems in here that will move you, thrill you, and make you sigh.
See how much language can transcend words. It opened my eyes.
Rating: - The Ageless and the Aging
We venture to say that Hayden Carruth's anthology is necessary for understanding the trends, the vicissitudes, the heights and the depths of American poetry from the First World War to the time of the moonwalk (Neil Armstrong's moonwalk, not Michael Jackson's). A necessary book is not necessarily a perfect book, but there is something here for everyone.
We detect a slight preference for the "new" -- and often the radical -- in prosody and in politics. If we are looking for W H Auden in ... Read More
Rating: - Excellent Resource Great Variety
I had a professor who used this book as a text. I was amazed at the depth and variety of poems and poets. I have used this book as a teacher also; it has many of those "everybody should read this" poems, as well as many other less known but wonderful titles. This is not a good book if you want commentary; it has poems and very short biographies only.
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