The Poetry Anthology 1912-2002: Ninety Years of America's Most Distinguished Verse Magazine

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The history of poetry and of Poetry in America are almost interchangeable certainly inseparable wrote A. R. Ammons. Founded by Harriet Monroe in 1912 Poetry magazine established its reputation immediately by printing T. S. Eliots Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock Carl Sandburgs Chicago Poems Wallace Stevenss Sunday Morning and the first important poems of Ezra Pound Marianne Moore William Carlos Williams Robert Frost and many other then unknown now classic authors. Publishing monthly without interruption Poetry has become Americas most distinguished magazine of verse presenting often for the very first time virtually every notable poet of the last nine decades-an unprecedented record. Decade by decade this bountiful ninetieth-anniversary anthology from Poetry includes the poems of the major talents-along with several lesser known-in all their variety: William Butler Yeats Edgar Lee Masters Sara Teasdale D. H. Lawrence Edna St. Vincent Millay Vachel Lindsay Robert Graves May Sarton Langston Hughes W. H. Auden Stephen Spender Hart Crane Robert Penn Warren Dylan Thomas e. e. cummings Gwendolyn Brooks James Merrill John Ashbery Frank OHara Randall Jarrell Elizabeth Bishop Robert Lowell Robinson Jeffers Theodore Roethke Karl Shapiro Anne Sexton Thom Gunn John Berryman Sylvia Plath Maxine Kumin Ted Hughes Adrienne Rich and Galway Kinnell. In recent decades Poetry has presented Seamus Heaney Rita Dove Billy Collins Kay Ryan Eavan Boland Stephen Dunn Mary Oliver Yusef Komunyakaa Jane Kenyon James Tate Sharon Olds Louise Glck Marilyn Hacker and many many others. T. S. Eliot called Poetry an American institution. The Poetry Anthology is sure to be an American keepsake.