The Voice That Is Great Within Us: American Poetry of the Twentieth Century (Bantam Classics)

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What an achievement these sixty years of poetry! In whatever terms we Americans regard the rest of our recent history the score of things done well and done ill this much at least we have done superlatively.Hayden Carruth This famous anthology includes the works of more than 130 major American poets of the modern periodRobert Frost Paul Goodman Carl Sandburg T.S. Eliot Ezra Pound Allen Ginsberg and Gwendolyn Brooks among themalong with short biographies of each. Not only the best on its period I think but is even perhaps safe from the competition of rivals.Robert Lowell