This famous anthology includes the works of more than 130 major American poets of the modern period--Robert Frost, Paul Goodman, Carl Sandburg and Gwendolyn Brooks among them--along with short biographies of each.

I have owned and loved this book for some time. The poems were so thoughtfully selected. It is clearly the result of high respect for the works chosen, and a compilation displaying taste and erudition. One can dip in anywhere and be lost in yet another unique world view.