| I have always found the Poets my best travelling companions. They see many things that are invisible to common eyes. |
| —Preface |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
Poems of Places An Anthology in 31 Volumes
Edited by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Longfellow as editor and translator brings his poetic genius to this anthology of anthologies, whose style he Americanized. Some 8,000 pages contain 4,242 selections, which are mapped to every corner of the globe and have now been painstakingly traced back to their original sources.
Contents
BOSTON: JAMES R. OSGOOD & Co., 1876–79
NEW YORK: BARTLEBY.COM, 2011
| I–IV. | England | |
| V. | Ireland | |
| VI–VIII. | Scotland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden | |
| IX–X. | France and Savoy | |
| XI–XIII. | Italy | |
| XIV–XV. | Spain, Portugal, Belgium, and Holland | |
| XVI. | Switzerland and Austria | |
| XVII–XVIII. | Germany | |
| XIX. | Greece and Turkey in Europe | |
| XX. | Russia | |
| XXI–XXIII. | Asia | |
| XXIV. | Africa | |
| XXV–XXIX. | America | |
| XXX. | Americas | |
| XXXI. | Oceanica |