From the Colonial Era to the early Twentieth
Century – three hundred years of the
America’s best poetry.

A comprehensive overview of America’s vast
poetic heritage, Three Centuries of American
Poetry features the work of some 150 of our
nation’s finest writers. It includes selections
from Anne Bradstreet, Ralph Waldo Emerson,
Henry Wadsworth, Longfellow, Emily
Dickinson, Edgar Allan Poe, Walt Whitman,
T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, William Carlos
Williams, e.e. cummings, Wallace Stevens,
Robert Frost, and Gertrude Stein, as well as
significant works of lesser known
American poets.

From the Revolutionary and Civil Wars to the
Romantic Era and the Gilded and Modern Ages,
this unrivaled anthology also presents a
memorable array of rare ballads, songs,
hymns, spirituals, and carols that echo
through our nation’s history. Highlights
include Native American poems, African
American writings, and the works of
Quakers, colonists, Huguenots,
transcendentalists, scholars, slaves, politicians,
journalists and clergymen.

These discerning selections demonstrate that
the American canon of poetry is as diverse as
the nation itself, and constantly evolving as
we pass through time. Here, in one
distinguished volume, are the many voices
of the New World.