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, and rarely encountered in the correct first printing. 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, 1842
Carey and Hart, Chesnut Street, Philadelphia, 1842
American poetry 19th century
xxiv, 468 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : portraits ; 26 cm
682174
Added title page, engraved: The poets and poetry of America / by Rufus Willmot [sic] Griswold. Engraving signed: G.H. Cushman