Includes bibliographical references (page [155]) and index.
Summary
Discusses early American poetry from the early 17th century into the late 19th century, including short biographies of poets like Phillis Wheatley and Walt Whitman.
Contents
Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672) -- Philip Freneau (1752-1832) -- Phillis Wheatley (1753-1784) -- William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878) -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) -- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) -- Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) -- Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) -- Walt Whitman (1819-1892) -- Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) -- Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906).