100 essential American poems / edited by Leslie M. Pockell.

Edition: 1st ed.

Publisher: New York : Thomas Dunne Books, 2009.

ISBN: 9780312369804
0312369808

Description: xv, 288 p. ; 22 cm.

Subject: American poetry.

Contents: The prologue / by Anne Bradstreet -- The author to her book / by Anne Bradstreet -- Before the birth of one of her children / by Anne Bradstreet -- To my dear and loving husband / by Anne Bradstreet -- Amazing grace / by John Newton -- Yankee doodle dandy / (traditional) -- The star-spangled banner / by Francis Scott Key -- A visit from St. Nicholas / by Clement Clarke Moore -- Thanatopsis / by William Cullen Bryant -- Concord hymn / by Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Paul Revere's ride / by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- The village blacksmith / by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- A psalm of life / by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- Barbara Frietchie / by John Greenleaf Whittier -- Snow-bound / by John Greenleaf Whittier -- Old Ironsides / by Oliver Wendell Holmes -- The chambered nautilus / by Oliver Wendell Holmes -- The deacon's masterpiece, or The wonderful "one-hoss shay" / by Oliver Wendell HolmesThe chambered nautilus / by Oliver Wendell Holmes -- The deacon's masterpiece, or The wonderful "one-hoss shay" / by Oliver Wendell Holmes -- The raven / by Edgar Allan Poe -- To Helen / by Edgar Allan Poe -- The bells / by Edgar Allan Poe -- What is so rare as a day in June from "The vision of Sir Launfal" / by James Russell Lowell --
Billy in the Darbies / by Herman Melville -- What is the grass fromLeaves of grass / by Walt Whitman -- Out of the cradle endlessly rocking / by Walt Whitman -- Crossing Brooklyn Ferry / by Walt Whitman -- A noiseless patient spider / by Walt Whitman -- I hear America singing by Walt Whitman -- When I heard the learn'd astronomer / by Walt Whitman -- When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd / by Walt Whitman -- Battle-hymn of the republic / by Julia Ward Howe -- Do down, Moses / (traditional) -- Follow the drinking gourd / (traditional) -- Jeanie with the light brown hair / by Stephen C. Foster -- Old folks at home / by Stephen C. Foster -- Wild nights!-- wild nights! / by Emily Dickinson -- There is no frigate like a book / by Emily Dickinson -- "Hope" is the thing with feathers / by Emily Dickinson -- I taste a liquor never brewed / by Emily Dickinson -- I'm nobody! Who are you? / by Emily Dickinson -- Because I could not stop for Death / by Emily Dickinson -- The face on the barroom floor / by Hugh Antoine D'Arcy -- Git along, little dogies / (traditional) -- Sioux ghost dance / (translated by James Mooney) -- The new Colossus / by Emma Lazarus -- Little boy blue / by Eugene Feld --
Casey at the bat / by Ernest Thayer -- Richard Cory / by Edwin Arlington Robinson -- Anne Rutledge from Spoon River anthology / by Edgar Lee Masters -- A man said to the universe / by Stephen Crane -- In the desert (from The black riders and other lines) / by Stephen Crane -- The cremation of Sam McGee / by Robert W. Service -- The shooting of Dan McGrew / by Robert W. Service -- Lift every voice and sing / by James Weldon Johnson -- We wear the mask / by Paul Laurence Dunbar -- The Congo / by Vachel Lindsay -- A decade / by Amy Lowell -- The gift outright / by Robert Frost -- The road not taken / by Robert Frost -- Stopping by woods on a snowy evening / by Robert Frost -- Mending wall / by Robert Frost -- Death of the hired man / by Robert Frost -- Chicago / by Carl Sandburg -- Fog / by Carl Sandburg -- Grass / by Carl Sandburg -- The emperor of ice-cream / by Wallace Stevens -- Thirteen ways of looking at a blackbird / by Wallace Stevens -- Home / by Edgar Guest -- The red wheelbarrow / by William Carlos Williams -- This is just to say / by William Carlos Williams -- Ancient music / by Ezra Pound -- Trees / by Joyce Kilmer -- Poetry / by Marianne Moore --
The love song of J. Alfred Prufrock / by Thomas Stearns Eliot -- The waste land / by Thomas Stearns Eliot -- First fig / by Edna St. Vincent Millay -- I, being born a woman and distressed / by Edna St. Vincent Millay -- Spring / by Edna St. Vincent Millay -- Recuerdo / by Edna St. Vincent Millay -- Second fig / by Edna St. Vincent Millay -- Résumé / by Dorothy Parker -- Buffalo Bill's / by E.E. Cummings -- In just- / by E.E. Cummings -- Poem : to Brooklyn Bridge / by Hart Crane -- Dream deferred / by Langston Hughes -- Mother to son / by Langston Hughes -- Song of the open road / by Ogden Nash -- Reflections on ice-breaking / by Ogden Nash -- Cross roads blues / by Robert Johnson -- Stagger Lee / (traditional) -- One art / by Elizabeth Bishop -- This land is your land / by Woody Guthrie -- The death of the ball turret gunner / by Randall Jarrell -- For the union dead / by Robert Lowell -- We real cool / by Gwendolyn Brooks -- Sound off marching cadence count / (derived from the Duckworth Chant, originally attributed to Pvt. Willie Duckworth) -- The day Lady died / by Frank O'Hara -- A supermarket in California / by Allen Ginsburg -- Daddy / by Sylvia Plath -- Taking off Emily Dickinson's clothes / by Billy Collins.

Summary: Favorite American poets--including Longfellow, Whitman, Dickinson, and Poe--are represented in this collection.