Contains a collection of poetry that spans two centuries and provides a diverse point of view of American life. American Poetry offers a collection of 26 verses by our finest poets, all with their unique perspective on the land they loved and accompanied by remarkable paintings that enhance the meaning of the words. Here, beautifully illustrated, are such unforgettable works.

Includes index.

I hear America singing / Walt Whitman -- From American names / Stephen Vincent Benet -- Indian names / Lydia Huntley Sigourney -- Navajo blanket / May Swenson -- Concord hymn / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Old Ironsides / Oliver Wendell Holmes -- Defence of Fort McHenry/ Francis Scott Key -- New colossus / Emma Lazarus -- Anecdote of the jar / Wallace Stevens -- Portrait VIII / E.E. Cummings -- O captain! my captain! / Walt Whitman -- Negro speaks of rivers / Langston Hughes -- To an American painter / Departing for Europe -- William Cullen Bryant -- Casey at the bat / Ernest Thayer -- House on the hill / Edward Arlington Robinson -- Stopping by woods on a snowy evening / Robert Frost -- Great figure / William Carlos Williams -- Amherst Train / Emily Dickinson -- Engine / Ella Wheeler Wilcox -- Virginia / T.S. Eliot -- On the Mississippi / Hamlin Garland -- Harlem hopscotch / Maya Angelou -- Jazz fantasia / Carl Sandburg -- America for me / Henry Van Dyke -- America / Claude McKay -- Rockets that reached Saturn / Vachel Lindsay -- Index.