Specimens of American Poetry

With Critical and Biographical Notices In Three Volumes

Edited by Samuel Kettell

These 454 selections from 188 authors form the first major verse anthology in the United States. Kettell, who knew many of the poets, pens personal and sometimes withering biographical essays to achieve a comprehensive rather than solely pantheonic collection.

Bibliographic Record Preface Introduction

Contents

BOSTON: S. G. GOODRICH & Co., 1829
NEW YORK: BARTLEBY.COM, 2010

Index to Authors