The Voice That Is Great Within Us
American Poetry of the Twentieth Century
- Paperback
768 pages
- Release Date
31 March 1999
Summary
“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 period—Robert Frost, Paul Goodman, Carl Sandburg, T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Allen Ginsberg, and Gwendolyn Brooks among them—along with short biographies of each.
<…Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780553262636 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0553262637 |
| Author: | Hayden Carruth |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Bantam Books Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 768 |
| Release Date: | 31 March 1999 |
| Weight: | 374g |
| Dimensions: | 171mm x 107mm x 33mm |
| Series: | Bantam Classics |
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“Not only the best on its period, I think, but it is even perhaps safe from the competition of rivals.” –Robert Lowell “What an achievement, these sixty years of poetry!
“Not only the best on its period, I think, but it is even perhaps safe from the competition of rivals.”
–Robert Lowell
“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
About The Author
Hayden Carruth
Hayden Carruth (1921-2008) lived for many years in northern Vermont, then moved to upstate New York, where he taught at Syracuse University. He won the National Book Award for Scrambled Eggs & Whiskey, and his Collected Shorter Poems received the National Book Critics Circle Award.
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