Specimens of American poetry with critical and biographical notices
Samuel Kettell (Compiler)
These 454 selections from 188 authors form the first major verse anthology in the United States. Kettell, who knew many of the poets, pens personal and sometimes withering biographical essays to achieve a comprehensive rather than solely pantheonic collection
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3 volumes 20 cm
222850
Reprint of the 1829 ed
"Catalogue of American poetry": v. 3, p. [377]-406