The Oxford Book Of American Verse

New York, New York: Oxford University Press. Very Good with no Dust Jacket. 1950. Hard Cover. 1132 pages: 5 x 7.25 in.: 2.6: KB#006703: Scarce, Out Of Print, Book. Dark Blue Boards, with bright gilt lettering on front and spine, and pages are clean, unmarked, bright, tightly bound and sharp cornered. Very light rubbing at top of spine. Slight starting to separate page block in middle of table of contents pages. "A worthy companion to The Oxford Book of English Verse, this anthology covers, in 571 selections, the whole range of American poetry from colonial times; more than half of it is devoted to the best work of the period from 1900 to 1950. Fifty-one poets represented - deliberately fewer than in most anthologies, so that sufficient space can be devoted to each poet to afford a real understanding of his or her work. More recent and less well-known poets are represented wherever possible by works of some length rather than by a scattering of short poems. Brief biographical notes at the end enable the reader to know in what volume of the poet's work each poem originally appeared." .