Physical description

xlii, 387p. ; p.1-24 at end of book Bohn's Libraries ; frontispiece opposite title page features woodcut of Walt Whitman; royal blue cover with author and title embossed in gold on spine. Includes Preface, Contents, Review of Colonial Poetry, Notes and Index of Authors.

Publication type

fiction

Inscriptions & markings

Handwriting 'Linton Free Library'

Summary

Selections from one hundred American poets from 1776 to 1876, with an introductory review of Colonial poetry. Frontispiece opposite title page features woodcut of Walt Whitman. Includes Preface, Contents, Review of Colonial Poetry and some specimens of Negro melody, Notes and Index of Authors.